A Quote by Lee Kuan Yew

Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead

Lee Kuan Yew

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Lee Kuan Yew
Singaporean - Statesman
Born: September 16, 1923

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

Tom Peters

Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover.

Misty May-Treanor

Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living.

Don Pendleton

I don't rest in my business interests, I don't rest being a husband, I don't rest being a father, and I don't rest doing none of these things because when you rest, you get comfortable.

Bernard Hopkins

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.

Jonathan Lethem

Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

Lucretius

No player can rest on his laurels.

Thomas Muller

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

Samuel Hoffenstein

I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.

John Muir

TV isn't like films; you can't rest on your laurels.

Mouni Roy

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

Julie Krone

You can't afford to rest on your laurels at all, or you'll instantly be on the bench.

Granit Xhaka

Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.

Roy Barnes

To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.

Jozef Pilsudski

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

It really doesn't matter what you've done in the past. We just don't rest on our laurels.

James Jebbia

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