Spurs Quotes - Page 5

• Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Technology, Innovation, Competition

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• Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

  Francis Quarles

  Anticipation, Danger

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.82

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• One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God

  Abraham Kuyper

  Passion, Home, School

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• True understanding is the spur of genius

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Understanding, Mentor, Genius

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• I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

  Robin Gibb

  Years, Spur Of The Moment, Next Year

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.

  Tom Kelley

  Creativity, Long, Action

  Tom Kelley, David Kelley (2013). “Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All”, p.145, Crown Business

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• Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want.

  Graham Roberts

  Couple, Player, Fog

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• With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

  Nick Lampson

  Jobs, Past, Years

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• We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

  John Christopher

  Regret, Loss, Use

  John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

  Steven Erikson

  Song, Blessed, Men

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• For the next inn he spurs amain,
  In haste alights, and skuds away,
  But time and tide for no man stay.

  William Somervile

  Time, Men, Haste

  William Somervile (1802*). “The poetical works of William Somervile, with the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.136

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• My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

  Eric Stoltz

  Lying, Reading, Phones

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• Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.

  Carisa Bianchi

  Creativity, Economic, Invention

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• Actions speak louder than words, but words spur actions.

  Janet Todd

  Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Action, Speak

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• Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

  Amy Seimetz

  Boredom, Decision, Bad Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Treasure, Leisure

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.57

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• Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Fall, Simple

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Julius Caesar! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.173, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.

  David Pleat

  Football, Real, Player

  "My dream team as a manager after 50 years in football" by David Pleat, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2010.

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• Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.

  Shakira

  Mother, Country, Children

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Ambition, Men, Feelings

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.429, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Sports, Thinking, Hair

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Meaningful, Book, People

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• Of the Black Prince [his son] at Crécy, 1345: Let the boy win his spurs. [Old English] Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I woll this iourney be his, and the honoure therof.

  Edward III of England

  Son, Winning, Boys

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• We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Hurt, Ocean

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Adversity, Home

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