Laurels Quotes - Page 2

• 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 violets o'er each unforgotten head.

  Richard Hovey

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Cheer

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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

  Kate Walsh

  Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.

  Tim Conway

  Nice, Awards, Years

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• I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

  Carlos Santana

  Player, Wake Up, Lyrical

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• With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

  Julie Krone

  Risk, Racing, Counterfeit

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I refuse to sit on my laurels.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Refuse

  Patricia Cornwell (2013). “Dust”, p.284, Hachette UK

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• There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

  Paul Walker

  Guy, Way, Position

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• Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.

  Will Carleton

  Beautiful, Memorial Day, Brother

  Will Carleton (1875). “Farm Legends”, p.87, Belford Bros.

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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 on my laurels.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Science, Knowing, Achievement

  Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.72, World Scientific

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• 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 need to get out there and keep working.

  Sheila Johnson

  Needs, Behind You, Behinds

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

  William Blake

  Poison, Crowns, Fame

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 97

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• In Pennsylvania, I love the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington. It's a scenic area. We also enjoy visiting the Laurel Highlands in Western Pennsylvania. The mountains are really something to be seen, and it's a great area to be outside.

  Troy Polamalu

  Mountain, Pennsylvania, Resorts

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• Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining the status quo facilitates mediocrity. Those who embrace this practice do not wish to rest on their laurels. They motivate others to exceed their limits and look for innovative ways to improve the organization.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, Opportunity, Greatness

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• There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Motivation, Challenges, New Challenges

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.

  Nicole Kidman

  Jobs, Thinking, Looks

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 26, 2016

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• You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

  Grantland Rice

  Sports, Moving, Practice

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

  Tom Peters

  History, Today, Tomorrow

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• Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Ivy, Names

  'Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa' November 1821

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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, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

  John Lennon

  Kings, People, Serious

  BBC interview with David Wigg, May 8, 1969.

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Yield, Togas, Arms

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Selfish, Past

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• Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

  Colin Wilson

  Too Much, Kind, Quicksand

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• Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Faster, Inaction

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Book, Thinking, Wings

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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 blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Blow, Blue, Wind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel”, p.229

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