Rest 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. [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

#4. You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

Keith Belling

#5. When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

David Sze

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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.

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come.

Barack Obama

#14. With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Julie Krone

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

Paul Walker

#18. Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead

Lee Kuan Yew

#19. Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#20. But there was no time to rest on my laurels.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#21. I've never been the type of person to stick with the same thing or be complacent or rest on my laurels.

Chris Jericho

#22. But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

Michael Stipe

#23. We just keep making the shows that we love, and the good news is that we can never rest on our laurels, knowing that we're going to be on forever. We're constantly challenged to write the very best story that we can, week in and week out, hoping that that will allow us to keep telling more of them.

Jeff Pinkner

#24. I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.

Andre Ward

#25. It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

David Cassidy

#26. As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing.

Cher Wang

#27. Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.

Roy Barnes

#28. 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

#29. To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.

Jozef Pilsudski

#30. We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.

Shawn Wayans

#31. 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

#32. People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Helen Hayes

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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