Second Best Quotes

• They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

  Kevin Keegan

  Funny, Football, Team

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

  Coco Chanel

  Things In Life, Cool Status, Best Things

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• Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.

  Jill Shalvis

  Smile, Keep Smiling, Lips And Kissing

  Jill Shalvis (2011). “Head Over Heels”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Real, Sin

  The Golden Notebook "Free Women: 5" (1962)

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• The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Witty

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.205, Hachette UK

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• ...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Offering, Giving

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• Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Time, Science, Technology

  "The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write It, How to Deliver It" by Richard Dowis, (p. 150), 2000.

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

  Tom Landry

  Decision, Firsts, Pursued

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• The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Perfect, Decision, Too Late

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• Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Umpires, League, Twenties

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• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  Oscar Robertson

  Success, Basketball, Sports

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• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

  Ian Thorpe (2012). “This Is Me: The Autobiography”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Dream, Life Is, Chasing

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• I spit
  honey out of my mouth:
  nothing is second-best
  after the sweet of Eros.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Sweet, Mouths

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• 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 to the person you settled for?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Loneliness, Choices, Trying

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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  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 than never having been in love.

  Maya Angelou

  I Love You, Falling In Love, Being In Love

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• We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Giving

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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Misunderstood, Thirds, Best Things

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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

  Amit Abraham

  Honesty, Spouse, Policy

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• Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

  Jimmy Connors

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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

  Aristotle

  People, Evil, Nicomachean Ethics

  Aristotle (1983). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.

  Steve Backley

  World, Want, Like You

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• Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.

  Reed Mullin

  Good Friend, Rock And Roll, Feet

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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