Quotes About Not 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. Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

Khalil Gibran

#3. 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

#4. Be ye not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2

Barbara Cadwell

#5. So there are many things outside of your control. Why not create positive control over the other things and add greater value to those?

Eveth N Colley

#6. 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

#7. In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

Robert Reich

#8. 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

#9. I believe in nothing but it is my nothing.

Richey Edwards

#10. 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

#11. There are days that walk through me and I cannot hold them.

Katherine Larson

#12. They understood why I left ER. It wasn't just about a guy.

Sherry Stringfield

#13. I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Brian Eno

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

Jim Henson