Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
You can't afford to rest on your laurels at all, or you'll instantly be on the bench.
I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.
I refuse to sit on my laurels.
Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.
It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
You never sit on your laurels. It is always a case of trying to work on your deficiencies as much as working on your strengths.
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