Laurels Quotes

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think that I've been living on my laurels.

— Kyle Gass

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

— Roisin Murphy

I don't like resting on my laurels.

— Nicola Coughlan

TV isn't like films; you can't rest on your laurels.

— Mouni Roy

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Martial

Deathless laurel is the victor's due.

— John Dryden

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

— Kate Walsh

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

— Geoffrey Hill

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Christopher Daniels

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

— Dana Gould

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

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Tom Peters

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new…

— Scott Adkins

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at…

— Beth Henley

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which…

— Carlos Santana

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

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on…

— Bryan Adams

All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away…

— Edmond Rostand

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…

— Sheila Johnson

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

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire…

— Hugh Nibley

“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

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing…

— Frank Lampard

Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all…

— Nora Roberts

The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force…

— Parker J. Palmer

As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for…

— Aprilynne Pike

Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he…

— D. H. Lawrence

He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always…

— Nora Roberts

If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop…

— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as…

— William Penn

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar…

— Edmund Spenser

Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people…

— Joni Mitchell

The one thing that I think separates Microsoft from a lot of other people is we make bold bets. We're persistent about…

— Steve Ballmer

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.

— Joni Mitchell

I'm not going to sit on my laurels.

— Jordan Burroughs

“I must leave others to wear the laurels that I have sown.”

— John Adams