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I refuse to sit on my laurels. -- Patricia Cornwell
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you. -- Kate Walsh
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean. -- Horatio Nelson
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. -- Helen Hayes
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
Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. -- William Blake
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. -- Douglas MacArthur
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. -- Douglas MacArthur
With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits. -- Julie Krone
Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we cant rest on our laurels. -- Roy Barnes
Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels. -- Roy Barnes
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. -- William Penn
You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come. -- Barack Obama
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. -- Beth Henley
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
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
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
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. -- Jane Porter
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
I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug. -- Gayle King
The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. -- Evita Peron
We need to look to our laurels a bit with television in this country. I don't think enough risks are being taken in drama television in the U.K., and I think a lot of programme makers are underestimating the intelligence of the viewing public, basing it all on ratings. -- Charles Dance
There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it. -- Frank Lampard
You win the lasting laurels with your laughter. -- Joni Mitchell
There are no laurels in life, just new challenges. -- Katharine Hepburn
Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost. -- Tom Peters
Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone -- Geoffrey Hill
Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead -- Lee Kuan Yew
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working. -- Andre Ward
I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures. -- Dana Gould
To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat. -- Jozef Pilsudski
I've never been the type of person to stick with the same thing or be complacent or rest on my laurels. -- Chris Jericho
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of. -- Colin Wilson
When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big. -- David Sze
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
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
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
In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best. -- Eric Liddell
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. -- Joseph Addison
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. -- Ferdinand Foch
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
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
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. -- Scott Adkins

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