Second Best Quotations

The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

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

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

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.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

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

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

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.