Second Best Quotes - Page 5

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

  Michael Jackson

  Giving, Matter, Being The Best

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• Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have found to be the best - one who is worthy of all our devotion - Jesus Christ. He is the Saviour for the young and the old. Lord, here I am

  Eric Liddell

  Christian, Jesus, Here I Am

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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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• 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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