It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Play like you're the best, but practice like you're in second place. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too.… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I do not want to sign projects in which the depth and essence of my character takes second place and the focus… — Lisa Haydon Copy Share Image
If you undermine people's confidence, they turn up at the contest trying to get second place. — Dorian Yates Copy Share Image
You will never be in first place with a WINNER if you always giving a second place effort — M Walder Copy Share Image
“There are several important remarks which can be made about this 'absolute emptiness' and 'absolute nothingness'. First of all, we now know,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“...There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them,… — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola Copy Share Image
(...) I am who I am, take it or leave it, a rebel at heart. No gods, no masters, my time has… — Angela Gossow Copy Share Image
“Wasn't learning to lose gracefully part of your training?" "No," she said sourly. "Arobynn told me that second place was just a… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“The period of general neglect of Eliot's poetry was one in which a revolution was occurring in the theory of interpretation. Existentialist,… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Second place always has something to prove. Don't ever settle for second. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An ethical man survives in a bureaucratic post only if he puts his ethics in second place. — Gordon R Dickson Copy Share Image
When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win,… — Greg LeMond Copy Share Image
My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place. — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
“Keep his mind on the inner life. He thinks his conversion is something inside him, and his attention is therefore chiefly turned… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Here I am taking a psychological characteristic such as the need to know where in the world we are (orientation) and show… — John Fielding Copy Share Image
Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I wrote a play that I sent off to a competition that took second place. I… — Noah Wyle Copy Share Image
“White roses and red roses: those were beautiful colours to think of. And the cards for first place and second place and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
