"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."
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Laurels
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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."
"Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of."
"I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures."
"When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart."
"I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton."