Top 78 On Your Laurels Quotes
#1. Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.
Tom Peters
#2. You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
Kate Walsh
#3. You never sit on your laurels. It is always a case of trying to work on your deficiencies as much as working on your strengths.
Brian O'Driscoll
#4. Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.
Colin Wilson
#5. [Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.
John Noble
#6. I look at everything I've done critically - but I think that's the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you're good - in a way, I don't then think you're pushing yourself.
Nicole Kidman
#7. You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.
Keith Belling
#8. When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.
David Sze
#9. I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.
Scott Adkins
#10. I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.
Junior Seau
#11. To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.
Richard Branson
#12. I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.
Nicole Beharie
#13. Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#14. With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.
Robert Downey Jr.
#15. It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.
Caterina Fake
#16. And once you've found success, don't stop. It's not about being insatiable; it's about not resting on your laurels.
Sophia Amoruso
#17. I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.
Al Jarreau
#18. With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.
Julie Krone
#19. You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come.
Barack Obama
#20. Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.
Sheila Johnson
#21. Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.
Jonathan Lethem
#22. I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
Carlos Santana
#23. I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because ... we are just getting started.
Walt Disney Company
#24. A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.
Tim Conway
#25. Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.
Mary Kay Ash
#27. Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Wendell Phillips
#28. If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people ...
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
#29. I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
John Adams
#31. I don't want to be remembered for my activities of my past, but for what I am doing today. By that I mean, I don't want to rest on my laurels satisfied by my past deeds. I want to contribute to the advancement of our Folk each and everyday.
Richard Kemp
#32. Also, she had been secretary to the soccer coach, an office pretty much without laurels in our own time, but apparently the post for a young girl to hold in Jersey City during the First World War.
Philip Roth
#33. All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me ... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is ... my white plume.
Edmond Rostand
#34. People who have known a person for many days but could never spot or appreciate his hidden talent in the first place, are likely to raise their suspicions on seeing him ever winning laurels in the life's race.
Anuj
#35. To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.
Jozef Pilsudski
#36. I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
Ahmed H. Zewail
#37. I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.
Constance Wu
#38. The property adjoined the bay, and when the tide came in it was possible to go kayaking, which some of the residents not yet disabled by their infirmities were happy to do. This is how I would like to live, thought Irina, taking deep breaths of the sweet aroma of pines and laurels.
Isabel Allende
#39. Scars do not bother me. They are the laurels of the survivor.
Patricia Briggs
#40. Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.
Dorothy Draper
#41. Isn't it true that when some couple celebrates their tenth or fifteenth anniversary they seem far from triumphant? In fact they seem duped while dirty Uncle Harry, the rake, seems to wear the laurels.
John Cheever
#42. John D. MacDonald is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels?
Kingsley Amis
#43. Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.
Roy Barnes
#45. Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.
Steven Pinker
#47. Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.
Heinz Guderian
#49. Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.
Richard Hovey
#50. But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
Angela Davis
#51. I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.
Fred Funk
#53. When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.
Thomas Jefferson
#54. The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#55. I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.
Dana Gould
#57. I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.
Nicholas Sparks
#58. I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in ... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.
Paul McCartney
#59. You must be conquerors through him who hath loved you, if conquerors at all. Our laurels must grow among his olives in Gethsemane.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#60. Early laurels weigh like lead and of many of the boys whom I knew at Eton, I can say that their lives are over ... Once again romanticism with its death wish is to blame, for it lays an emphasis on childhood, on a fall from grace which is not compensated for by any doctrine of future redemption.
Cyril Connolly
#61. You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#62. Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
Horatio Nelson
#63. I must leave others to wear the laurels that I have sown.
John Adams
#65. Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
Lord Byron
#66. People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Helen Hayes
#67. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
John Milton
#68. Many are so used to laurels and presume that they are real winners.
Dejan Stojanovic
#69. The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.
Isabella Beeton
#70. I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
Bryan Adams
#71. Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
Charles Spurgeon
#72. Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself, 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laurels;' but rather will he say to himself, 'What more is there that I may do to make the world the better because of my endeavors?
Howard Pyle
#73. I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
Albert Einstein
#74. As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.
Lorin Maazel
#75. I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.
Tricia Helfer
#76. I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.
Zooey Deschanel
#77. We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.
Shawn Wayans
#78. Platonic England, house of solitudes,
rests in its laurels and its injured stone
Geoffrey Hill
