Laurels Quotes
104 quotes by 92 authors
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The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change…
— Parker J. Palmer
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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…
— Jane Porter
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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
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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…
— Heinz Guderian
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l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small amount of trouble…
— Dorothy Draper
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Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on…
— Dorothy Draper
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The…
— Edmund Spenser
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Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush…
— Mark Nepo
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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…
— Ahmed H. Zewail
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To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.
— Jozef Pilsudski
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Let us, then, try what love will do, for if people once see we love them, we should soon find that they would not harm…
— William Penn
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I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.
— Andre Ward
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Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or…
— Nicole Kidman
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Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King…
— John Lennon
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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…
— Charles Spurgeon
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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…
— Richard Branson
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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…
— Tim Conway
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When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.
— Brian Williams
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