Never Be Second Best Quotes

#1. If we could see the beauty and miracle of transformation that happens to us every second, we would never complain again.

Debasish Mridha

#2. The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

Edie Falco

#3. I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had.

Tim Ward

#4. We've been given a second chance. Some people never even get a first. Do you know how lucky we are?

Felice Stevens

#5. I never stopped loving you," he whispered. "Not even for a second. Even when I hated you.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#6. Never second guess yourself. Or do, maybe. Whatever you feel good about.

Dan Florence

#7. I really want to go to Ireland. It's really green I hear and very pretty. So I'd really like to go there and spend a nice amount of time because I always travel but for like a second. I never get to enjoy the places.

Selena Gomez

#8. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

William James

#9. It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#10. Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.

Bobby Adair

#11. There can be second chances. But maybe it's also true that things can never be the same, and that you have to decide whether the second chance lives up to the first.

Marie Rutkoski

#12. She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.

Daniel Handler

#13. It's them as should be sorry! I knew yeh weren't gettin' yer letters but I never thought yeh wouldn't even know abou' Hogwarts, fer cryin' out loud! Did yeh never wonder where yer parents learned it all?" "All what?" asked Harry. "ALL WHAT?" Hagrid thundered. "Now wait jus' one second!

J.K. Rowling

#14. Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one.

Auberon Waugh

#15. Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

Martin Van Buren

#16. Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

Robert Watson-Watt

#17. If in life you choose something that is your second choice, whether it be clothes, a relationship, or a career, then don't choose it. Wait until you can have your first choice. Never settle for second best.

Steven Aitchison

#18. First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.

Thomas Wilson

#19. I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough.

Matt Busby

#20. That day will never come. I'll be the last bachelor standing." Dylan made a show of looking at his watch. "And if I hustle, I can still meet, mingle and be the answer to some woman's sexual prayers. Let's hit it before she settles on second best.

Jory Strong

#21. It's sad to know how blind we are when it comes to appreciation. We have to lose something to gain knowledge of its worth. The best gift of life is love, the second is health. Most of us have both but will never be satisfied.

Abraham Ruiz

#22. Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

William Butler Yeats

#23. Time is your only enemy, it disappears very quickly and never gives you a second chance.

Steve Douglas

#24. You'll never come second by putting God first.

Brian Houston

#25. But what really gets me is that in order for Mr. Daniels to come up with this plan, he must have thought of me outside of school - when he didn't have to think of me. I bet other teachers have never let me sit in their head one second longer than they had to.

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

#26. I couldn't believe this. My first very good friend had run off to Japan and never written me and now my second very good friend had stolen my cat.

Kristen Tracy

#27. Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine.

Jen Kirkman

#28. And my heart shatters for the second time today. It's blown apart into so many pieces, the shrapnel spread so far and wide, I know what remains will never fit back together again. Puzzles don't work when you only have half of the pieces. Same goes for hearts. I

Kim Holden

#29. I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you're bent over about the color, don't leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.

Janet Evanovich

#30. Remind yourself that every second spent scrolling through social media is one you will never get back.

Daniel Smith

#31. I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within a split second and I feel like I've seen too much. And that's the way, I've been like that most of my life, so I could never say I was there yet in any stretch of the imagination.

Richard Ashcroft

#32. He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss of a father, for it will never happen a second time: might as well leave the wound open.

Umberto Eco

#33. Never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself

Judy Garland

#34. If a boy ever says, you remind me of someone
don't fall in love with him. You will never be anything more than second best.

Lang Leav

#35. Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life's mistakes
Are initial drafts
And not the final version.

Sri Chinmoy

#36. When Boston and Orlando told me they were going to pick me at 21 and 22, I figured I don't need to do a workout for a second -round team. Boston and Orlando never drafted me because they said I was too skinny and no European point guard will make it in the League.

Tony Parker

#37. The "Florida effect" involves two stages of priming. First, the set of words primes thoughts of old age, though the word old is never mentioned; second, these thoughts prime a behavior, walking slowly, which is associated with old age. All this happens without any awareness.

Daniel Kahneman

#38. If you get a second chance, grab it with the first and second hands. Never let it go till all is done and done well. Second chances come with the last graces!

Israelmore Ayivor

#39. Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

Steve Martin

#40. I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

#41. The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Saul Alinsky

#42. Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Julian Baggini

#43. I'd wanted normal so badly. No werewolves. No second sight. No weird pull on men. Yet, I knew I would never be normal. I would never have a normal date. I kept trying to mold myself into something I could never be.

Melissa Haag

#44. What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

Jodi Picoult