laurels

The important thing about embracing success, they say, is not to rest on your laurels.

According to Michaelis, Schwend added to his laurels by writing a history of Operation Bernhard.

Sure, he could have rested on his laurels and retired a decade ago.

Never one to rest on his muscled laurels, Walker is currently 2-0 as a professional mixed martial artist.

This is in part because U-God has few laurels on which to rest.

We shall, I know, emulate their steadfastness and achieve a result which will confer added laurels to French and British arms.

Castiglione added to his laurels, for it was his handling of the artillery that enabled Augereau to win his great victory.

The conflict was at an end, he was the victor in the fight, he could rest upon his laurels and take life easy.

He was a general in the United States army, and won laurels in the Mexican war.

No man of heathen antiquity is better known to us, and no man by pure genius ever won more glorious laurels.