Second Quotes
6250 quotes by 4203 authors
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It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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We're worn into grooves by Time-by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each…
— Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
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Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting…
— Jo Boaler
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To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
— Cesar Chavez
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I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in…
— Kemmons Wilson
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Three men were laying brick. The first was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " Laying some brick." The second man was asked:…
— Charles R. Schwab
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
— Dick Gregory
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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…
— Aristotle
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The second thing: nobody has ever been able to drop the ego because ego is not a reality that you can drop; anything to be…
— Rajneesh
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The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case,…
— Carl Jung
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[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.
— Mike Gorman
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I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.
— Robert Kennedy
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If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.
— Oprah Winfrey
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The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise,…
— H.G. Wells
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I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never…
— Herb Kelleher
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Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.
— Michael O'Leary
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..."And for God's sake, never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's net-worth. As Yogi Ramen preached: 'Every second you…
— Robin Sharma
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He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing…
— Leo Buscaglia
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