Top 100 Quotes About Second Best
#1. New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that.
Landon Donovan
#2. 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
#3. Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
Iris Murdoch
#4. The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
Ted Allen
#5. Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
William Lyon Phelps
#6. I don't play any tournaments to come second best.
Andy Murray
#7. Life's too short to settle for second best
Elle Casey
#8. Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.
Tabitha Suzuma
#9. You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.
Kevin Durant
#11. In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing.
Ian McEwan
#12. Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse ... discretions apply elsewhere
Amit Abraham
#13. Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
Jill Shalvis
#14. Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
Eric Liddell
#15. The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.
Aristotle.
#17. And I didn't need telepathy, either. Ask any woman you're ever had a relationship with: I guarantee she knew she was second best. A placeholder, till the one you actually wanted came home.
Tana French
#18. The second best thing after a gift itself is the way of giving it
Ali Boussi
#19. But eventually everything was back the way it had been before, except for Lucy's father's second-best tuba, which had sustained severe jam damage.
So Lucy's father sold his second-best tuba and bought a sousaphone instead, which he had always wanted.
Neil Gaiman
#20. In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.
Viswanathan Anand
#21. Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Carlin
#23. Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.
Jimmy Connors
#25. The best time to plant a tree was forty years ago. The second best time is today.
Robin S. Sharma
#26. The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
Joseph Campbell
#27. We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
Aristotle.
#28. They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.
Kevin Keegan
#29. The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition
it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind
yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!
William James
#30. The best thing I ever did was figure out how to hide a pistol in my brassiere. The second best thing I ever did was let Thomas figure out how to find it, but that's a story for another day. - Alice Healy
Seanan McGuire
#31. Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.
Robert Watson-Watt
#32. 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
#33. Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.
Herman Melville
#34. These are delicious! What are they?"
"Double chocolate chip with peanut butter filling."
"They're the second best thing I've ever tasted."
I laughed. "You said the same thing at dinner."
"I recently readjusted the ranking.
Colleen Houck
#35. 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
#36. Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players
Jock Stein
#38. Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't but you never stop chasing them.
Tim Dorsey
#39. I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.
Mike Newell
#40. The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.
David Weber
#41. A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.
Graeme Simsion
#42. The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.
Robert A. Heinlein
#43. People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#44. If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?
Lisa Kleypas
#45. And remember, Liverpool reserves are not just any team. Liverpool reserves are the second-best team in the land, son. The only team better than the Liverpool reserve team is the Liverpool first team.
David Peace
#46. No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.
Dean Acheson
#47. I'm very happy with the outcome of the vote. I totally, totally support equal marriage in law. I don't want anybody in society feeling second best. I don't believe that being gay is a sin.
Stephen Crabb
#48. I love you, Cole. I'm sorry if I ever made you feel like you were second best or that I didn't love you or that God forbid, you were a substitute for Lucas and that any man could give me what I want and need.
Maya Banks
#49. In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best
science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction
writer.
[dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke in his book Report on Planet Three]
Arthur C. Clarke
#50. When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
Martin Heinrich
#51. According to them, everyone wants to be English. Being English is the best thing in the world. (Far behind, the second best thing is being God himself.)
Angela Kiss
#52. Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin to heaven.
Cormac McCarthy
#53. The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.
David Brin
#55. As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up. Collin
Danielle Steel
#56. The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
Anonymous
#57. Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came
Sophocles
#58. The best way to support the troops is to not send them off to die in the first place. And the second best way to support them only to send them off to die when you absolutely have to. And the only way to know that you've done that is to talk about it, debate it, examine it, and make damn sure.
Barry Lyga
#59. The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.
Omar N. Bradley
#60. Best thunderclap came from Spengler, to the effect that science is either true or false, art is either shallow or deep. Second best came from some Supreme Court Justice, Jackson, I think, to the effect that one man's right to swing his fists stops where another man's nose begins.
Kurt Vonnegut
#61. Well, it used to be Kobe Bryant ... the second best all time ... now, I have a new favorite player to play against ... my former teammate, LeBron James.
Dwyane Wade
#62. If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.
Steve Backley
#63. I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.
Joe Namath
#64. As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
Alberto Manguel
#65. The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.
John O'Donohue
#66. I stared at him. Maybe it had been hard for him being second best too.
Jacqueline Wilson
#67. When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.
Edward Abbey
#68. Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law
Auberon Waugh
#69. I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.
Tom Landry
#70. She didn't want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point.
Julia Quinn
#71. Fight, America. You might not want to fight for the things that most others would fight for, like money or notoriety, but fight all the same.
Whatever it is that you want, America, go after it with all that you have in you.
Keep from letting fear make you settle for second best.
Kiera Cass
#72. They make you settle for second best."
That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to tell you the moral, just in case you're too dumb to figure it out for yourself.
"You never get what you want.
Connie Willis
#73. The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
Coco Chanel
#74. You've just got to accept that your first love is your greatest, and everything else is going to be second-best. But second-best is better than nothing at all.
Amy Plum
#75. My imagination plus Vibrizzio is not only equal to but also greater than a real man. Why should I settle for second best?
Nicki Elson
#76. Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
Dan Jenkins
#77. The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
John D. Rockefeller
#78. Roselyn corseted Shane in her second best bodice, causing Shane to question in gasps how women who could not heal cracked ribs managed the feat of breathing.
"Breathing," Roselyn assured her, "was overrated.
Thomm Quackenbush
#79. In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke - was prepared to devote my life to become the second best film director in my family.
George Stevens Jr.
#80. ABREAST
He who aims
to keep abreast
is for ever
second best.
Piet Hein
#81. You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
Leo Buscaglia
#82. I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.
Wilbur Smith
#83. I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#84. -"Great! Fucking! News! What would be the best thing that could ever happen?"
-"If after I died, I was reincarnated as Meg White?"
-"Okay, the second-best thing.
Robin Benway
#85. If people think about options in terms of their features rather than as a whole, different options may rank as second best (or even best) with respect to each individual feature.
Barry Schwartz
#86. First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
Maya Angelou
#87. The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best thing for you is to die soon.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#88. The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.
John Denver
#89. 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
#90. The greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.
Soren Kierkegaard
#91. It is best to keep one's own state intact; to crush the enemy's state is only second best.
Sun Tzu
#92. For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.
Meg Whitman
#93. Surgery is always second best. If you can so something else, it's better. Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no place else to go.
John W. Kirklin
#94. It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
#95. This is the second best gift you've ever given me. He wrapped his arms around her waist, burying his face in her hair. A shudder ran through him. She tightened her arms around him.
Jessica Scott
#96. Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Bertrand Russell
#97. Yes, Shelby, You're the real best thing in his life. I know. I guess I can deal with being second best."
- Emily to Shelby
Ruth Ford Elward
#98. I spit
honey out of my mouth:
nothing is second-best
after the sweet of Eros.
Hilda Doolittle
#99. I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.
Jim Courier
#100. I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best.
James Clavell
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