Laurels Quote by Lee Kuan Yew Download Open image “Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead” — Lee Kuan Yew ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Laurels Sleep Wish
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 Copy Share Image
Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking — Popo Santos Copy Share Image
“Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’ …Why would… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Why, if this interval of being can be spent serenely in the form of a laurel, slightly darker than all other green, with tiny… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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,… — Edmund Spenser 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 well. It's… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
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… — Ferdinand Foch 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 and pass… — June Millington Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Hovey 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 by people. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
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… — Gayle King 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 up your… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on… — Cher Wang 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 musicians heads,… — Patrick Rothruss Copy Share Image
