Laurels Quotes · Page 2

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

— Martial

I'm not going to sit on my laurels.

— Jordan Burroughs

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.

— Joni Mitchell

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

— Franz Grillparzer

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

— Stephen Lang

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

You can't afford to rest on your laurels at all, or you'll instantly be on the bench.

— Granit Xhaka

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

— Brian Williams

“Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

— Oscar Wilde

So much of our business is 'What have you done lately?' There is no resting on the laurels.

— Christopher Daniels

Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who…

— Heinz Guderian

Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by…

— Billy Crystal

Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like…

— John Lennon

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women…

— Nicholas Sparks

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought:…

— Eudora Welty

I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the…

— Steve Martin

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my…

— Paul McCartney

There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin…

— Henry Mitchell

And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel—” “I’m not sleeping with…

— Nora Roberts

My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We…

— Charlie Day

Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or…

— Anonymous

The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to…

— Virginia Woolf

Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels,…

— Dorothy Draper

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect…

— Will Smith

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

— Dana Gould

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

— Geoffrey Hill

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

— Kate Walsh

“Many are so used to laurels and presume that they are real winners.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Chris Jericho

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do…

— David Cassidy

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

— Tom Peters

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

— Keith Belling

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

— Andre Ward

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…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers