Top 28 Quotes About Why Nice Guys Finish Last

#1. You ever heard the phrase 'nice guys finish last'? It's true. Been true my whole life. So, maybe it'd be nice for me for a change, if someone thought I was worth fightin' for.

Lorelei James

#2. Last guys don't finish nice.

Saul D. Alinsky

#3. Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.

Robert Kiyosaki

#4. They say nice guys finish last. That may be true, if the only people you're nice to are the ones who constantly disrespect you.

Charles F. Glassman

#5. You know, nice guys finish last, don't you?"
"I guess I'll finish last.

Jalpa Williby

#6. Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.

P.D. Ouspensky

#7. It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

Natalie Dormer

#8. I was able to get through the field and get this Lowe's ProServices Chevy up front. Those last few restarts I was able to hang on and duke it out with those guys and get a nice, top-three finish.

Jimmie Johnson

#9. No one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

Ethel Smyth

#10. Nice guys may finish last, but in a courtroom they are king.

Kenneth Eade

#11. If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.

Edward Dyer

#12. It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Mort Walker

#13. Whoever said life without love isn't worth living didn't own an iPhone. These things are great.

Dov Davidoff

#14. Basically, nice guys can finish last.

Lee Meriwether

#15. You know what I worry about? I worry that when I hit my head, it pushes my hair into my brain, and it will eventually kill me.

Drew Carey

#16. We're living proof that nice guys always finish last.

Matthew Cooper

#17. Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Leo Durocher

#18. For the spectator does not see space, he sees the objects and events; he does not perceive the coordinates with the same cyclopean eye of the camera. With his entire body, desires, and fantasies, he perceives the existential dimensions by which the world is organized.

Mikel Dufrenne

#19. Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

Ken Blanchard

#20. It is the result of thinking, not the process if thinking, that occurs spontaneously in consciousness.

David McRaney

#21. I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful.

Linda Ronstadt

#22. It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.

Leo Durocher

#23. Nice guys finish last but that's what makes them good in bed.

Nicholas M. Bugden

#24. Nice guys finish last but bad guys don't finish at all.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

Dana Carvey

#26. Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Evan Davis

#27. It's not uncommon. Nice guys finish last and all.

Stephanie Perkins

#28. The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they'll finish last. You don't win the race by walking around the starting line saying 'I'm not going to win this race'.

Mitch Rowland

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