Quotes and Sayings About Second Best
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Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere
-- Amit Abraham -
I don't play any tournaments to come second best.
-- Andy Murray -
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
-- Aristotle -
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.
-- David WeberSource : David Weber (2013). “The Honor of the Queen, Second Edition”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises
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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.
-- Dwyane Wade -
Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
-- Eric Liddell -
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.'
-- Heinrich Zimmer -
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
-- Hilaire Belloc -
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Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
-- Jill ShalvisSource : Jill Shalvis (2011). “Head Over Heels”, p.100, Hachette UK
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Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
-- Jim Henson -
I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.
-- Joe Namath -
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.
-- John W. Kirklin -
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When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
-- Martin Heinrich -
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
-- Melissa de la Cruz -
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov -
Why be second best at anything?
-- Paul HeymanSource : "The Rise & Fall of ECW". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 2004.
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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
-- Sophocles -
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.
-- Tim Dorsey -
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.
-- Tom Morello -
Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
-- William Lyon Phelps -
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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.
-- Steve Howey