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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Team

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wine, Two, Giving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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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

  Not Good Enough, Good Enough, Enough

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• Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Real, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.94, Bertrand Russell

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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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• 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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• 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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• Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Eye, Gay

  'From Oedipus at Colonus'.

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