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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — John Milton

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do. — Eric Balfour

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me. — Graham Roberts

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse. — Thomas Adams

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest. — Emile Souvestre

It's been my life, Tottenham Hotspur,
and I love the club. — Bill Nichols

If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best. — Bill Nichols

As Hoffman later lamented, The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits. — Joanna Hoffman

Everything is always spur-of-the-moment. All of my tattoos I decide that second and do it, — Avril Lavigne

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind — Ovid

Ten minutes of reading followed by twenty minutes of challenging practice keeps you awake and spurs you on. — Mark Myers

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The worst thing Spurs ever did was get rid of Keith Burkinshaw. They have never replaced him. — Graham Roberts

Opposition is the very spur of love. — Tobias Smollett

Spurs are up against one of the top coaches in the world if not one of the best in the world — Aidy Boothroyd

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

My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time. — Dennis Rodman

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. — Robert W. Sarnoff

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton. — Albert Einstein

It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives. — Jeffrey Archer

Don't squat with your spurs on. — Will Rogers

Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love. — Rick Riordan

What do I like about Spurs? The flairness — Dwight Yorke

Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth. — N. Robert Hammer

The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game. — Dennis Rodman

The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of mustaches. — Victor Hugo

Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind,
To follow rule and climb the stately chair. — George Peele

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write. — Nell Freudenberger

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

It's no use just winning, we've got to win well. — Bill Nichols

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation. — Nicholas Hoult

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land. — Walter Scott

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on. — Geoffrey Boycott

The Spurs are a great WNBA team. — Shaquille O'Neal

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest. — Nicolas Chamfort

The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action. — John C. Maxwell

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast. — William Shakespeare

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan. — Christine Pelosi

Team spirit spurs me on. I've always found it easier to be strong for other people than for myself. — Cheryl Cole

I would run through brick walls for Spurs. — Graham Roberts

Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation — John Helm

I've followed the NBA religiously since I was a kid, and now because of my boy Tony Parker, I'm a huge Spurs fan. — Thierry Henry

All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs. — C. Z. Guest

And he wore high-heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a laboring man. — John Steinbeck

Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention. — Carisa Bianchi

Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
[Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.] — George Herbert

Bravery is often too sharp a spur. — Lajos Kossuth

My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love. — Rick Riordan

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same. — Margaret Mitchell

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop. — Francis Quarles

And they hooked their fingers around its slender spurs, and pulled. — Laini Taylor

Don't squat with your spurs on."--Unknown — Teresa Burrell

Necessity is the spur of genius. — Honore De Balzac

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases ... — Pablo Neruda

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it ... — Francis Quarles

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death. — Hannibal

Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually. — Graham Roberts

Envy's a sharper spur than pay. — John Gay

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur. — Joseph Joubert

Spurs fans are feeling very boyish about the future — Alan Brazil

There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away. — Publilius Syrus

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind.
[Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.] — Ovid

Dreaming is one of humanity's greatest gifts - it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward. — Richard Branson

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones. — Edmond Rostand

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens. — Robert W. Sarnoff

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur. — Hyman Rickover

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Necessity is often the spur to genius. — Honore De Balzac

If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on. — Doug Martsch

Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. — Herman Melville

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all. — Amy Seimetz

When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting. — Zane Grey

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. — Jean Paul

I'm sure Spurs will get another opportunity, hopefully before the final whistle. — Steve Claridge

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action. — William Blum

Perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer. — Hortense Calisher

Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team. — Mike Ingham

Let the boy win his spurs. — Edward III Of England

Vanity is often the unseen spur. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. — Dante Alighieri

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip. — John Motson

I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did. — Steve Perryman

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's never too soon to worry. Worry spurs preparation. — Laini Taylor

There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham. — David Pleat

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. — Mickey Hart