Second Best Quotes

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.

When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.

No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.

Why be second best at anything?

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

My friend Heinrich Zimmer of years ago used to say, 'The best things can't be told,' because they transcend thought. 'The second best are misunderstood,' because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can't be thought about, and one gets stuck in the thoughts. 'The third best are what we talk about.'

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.

I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.

The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't but you never stop chasing them.

Well, it used to be Kobe Bryant... the second best all time.... now, I have a new favorite player to play against... my former teammate, LeBron James.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

Surgery is always second best. If you can so something else, it’s better. Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no place else to go.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me. - Oliver Hazzard-Perry

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test.

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 much less to go around.

You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

Second best is not good enough really. Although if someone turned around now and said 'you will be promoted, but you will come in second' then I would take it.