Quotes About Resting On Your Laurels

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

Colin Wilson

#6. 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

#7. People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.

Patty Hearst

#8. Warning: Contains old friends, old enemies, a dramatic cat rescue, soft drink references and a lot of teasing before the steamy sex. Readers are cautioned against drinking any beverage while reading to avoid accidental snorting or spraying of said beverages.

K.A. Mitchell

#9. When a man plans, a woman laughs.

David Wong

#10. I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

Ted Turner

#11. Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal!
to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence ... Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.

Hugh Nibley

#12. I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.

Steve Martin

#13. I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Constance Wu

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.

Jonathan Hickman

#18. I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.

Dana Gould

#19. 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