Quotes About Accepting Second Best

#1. I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.

Lenny Abrahamson

#2. you can live your life afraid to move forward, or you can live your life accepting people for who they are and believing in those people, giving second chances with the hopes that the changes they've worked hard to achieve remain.

Melissa Foster

#3. My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

Manoj Bhargava

#4. You always think in terms of customer benefit. You always think, "How could I really benefit people at such a high level that they would love to buy my product or service and recommend it to others?"

Brian Tracy

#5. I never expectedto lose in court. In practice, I did lose, of course. Every lawyer loses, just as every baseball player makes an out severy percent of the time he goes to bat.

William Landay

#6. Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.

Jim Henson

#7. President Reagan is a lot like E.T. He's cute, he's lovable, and he knows nothing about how Americans live.

Elayne Boosler

#8. Paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

John Lennon

#9. I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around a thousand kids. All smart. We had a strict dress code. If you wore blue jeans to school, they sent you home.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#10. I agree. I certainly like your mouth

Richelle Mead

#11. We don't live in a world that's black and white.

Shannon Elizabeth

#12. Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun.

N.J. Hallard

#13. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

Charles Brent

#14. My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

Darin Strauss

#15. Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

#16. If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion.

Shane Koyczan

#17. Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.

Zig Ziglar

#18. I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because I was all into the hallucinogens for a minute.

Michelle Rodriguez

#20. Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

Richard Bach

#21. I love you. It was so simple it almost went straight past me.
I love you.

Emma Scott