What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Don't be a second rate version of someone else, when you can be a first rate version of yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always be a first-rate version of yourself rather than a second-rate version of somebody else. — Babloo Copy Share Image
“Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't,… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“always be a first-rate version of your self instead of a second-rate version of someone else.” — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else” — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.' — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate?… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is better to be yourself than a second-rate, trying hard copycat of somebody else. The trick is to be you at… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that. — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
Do not let anyone, of any sex, tell you that your intuitions and insights, your wisdom and your understandings, are somehow second-rate… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of being a second-rate version of someone else.” — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.” — John Collier Copy Share Image
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of someone else. —JUDY GARLAND” — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
You can compromise on anything else in your life but love. It's the one time where under no circumstances should you let… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive. — Mary Jane Ward Copy Share Image
The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
