Second Best Quotes

106 quotes by 95 authors

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… — Jim Courier
Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready. — Robert Watson-Watt
The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign. — John O'Donohue
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in… — Chuck Thompson
When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best. — Martin Heinrich
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing
I don't play any tournaments to come second best. — Andy Murray
In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive. — Viswanathan Anand
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. — George Carlin
You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else. — Leo Buscaglia
You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that… — J M Coetzee
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… — Arthur C. Clarke
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… — Maya Angelou
Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so… — Lorrie Moore
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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… — Lisa Kleypas
Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked… — Patricia Briggs
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… — Tabitha Suzuma
The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now. — David Brin
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… — Alberto Manguel

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