Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Tobias Smollett

Opposition is the very spur of love.

John Milton

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

Graham Roberts

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Joseph Joubert

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Eric Balfour

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.

Honore de Balzac

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Francis Quarles

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

David Hume

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

Beatrice Webb

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Alain de Botton

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

Charles Churchill

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Jane Austen

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Genius, when young, is divine.

Carl von Clausewitz

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

Bryant H. McGill

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Brian Clough

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.