Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has… — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big. — David Sze Copy Share Image
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Education is key. We have to keep girls in school and give them the same opportunities that boys have. They need access… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
After 'The Hobbit,' I have no idea if things will change. I suspect if I still want to act I will have… — Mark Hadlow Copy Share Image
These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day… — Will Carleton Copy Share Image
A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
“You see, a laurel needs to grow. I can't do much about that. But I can keep the rain off a few… — Patrick Rothruss Copy Share Image
There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image
Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the… — Fred Funk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People who have known a person for many days but could never spot or appreciate his hidden talent in the first place,… — Anuj Copy Share Image
I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're… — David Chase Copy Share Image
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could… — John Noble Copy Share Image
“You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon… — June Millington Copy Share Image
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