Laurels Quotes
Laurels Quote of the day
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.
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.
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.
To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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.
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.
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
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.
Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.
No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
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.
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.
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.
I've never been the type of person to stick with the same thing or be complacent or rest on my laurels.
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.
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.
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.
The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.
There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.
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.
If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.
The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.
Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
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.
When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.
I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
I'm already 30! It doesn't really feel like a landmark. When I started out, my aim was to keep making records. Just because I've reached the 10th doesn't mean I'm going to rest on my laurels now!
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.
I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.
A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die.
You can't rest on any laurels if they exist, and happily there are some from the franchise, but you have to always expand your own horizon both creatively and technically as well.
