Laurels Quotes

“Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.”

“Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.”

“You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you!”

“But there was no time to rest on my laurels.”

“Do not rest on your laurels when you get to the top”

“do you reckon to win the everlasting laurels without a conflict?”

“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.”

“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.”

“In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.”

“I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.”

“Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself, 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laurels;' but rather will he say to himself, 'What more is there that I may do to make the world the better because of my endeavors?”