“ I think this is a very difficult job, especially for women - there are too few roles around. I never let myself rest on my laurels. ”
- Amanda Burton- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon? ”
- Oswald C. Hoffman- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 3.6K
“ With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits. ”
- Julie Krone- Copy
- 350
“ Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. ”
- William Penn- Copy
- 131
“ If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents. ”
- Clara Hughes- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead — the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol! ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
- 774
“ The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 2.6K
“ But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me. ”
- Olga Korbut- Copy
- 2.7K
“ My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won. ”
- Betty Cuthbert- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. ”
- Scott Hamilton- Copy
- 1.6K
“ To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable. ”
- Sebastian Coe- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success. ”
- Mary Lou Retton- Copy
- 1.5K
“ It was a big disappointment right after the match. Even during, at certain times. ”
- Mary Pierce- Copy
- 2.7K
“ But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life. ”
- Angela Davis- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be. ”
- Charlie Daniels- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ”
- Dorothee Soelle- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. ”
- Joseph Heller- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. ”
- Dan Gable- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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
- 1.7K
“ Literature, as a field of glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; and as a means of support, it is the chance of chances. ”
- Henry Giles- Copy
- 3K
“ We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. ”
- Lauren Hutton- Copy
- 3K
“ People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach "retirement" age seem very admirable to me. ”
- Helen Hayes- Copy
- 4K
“ You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
- 1.5K
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