Spurs Quotes - Page 3

[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

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

Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

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

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

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.

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

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

Actions speak louder than words, but words spur actions.

Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious.

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

Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

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

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

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

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

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

If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.

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

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.