Second Best Quotes

Second Best Quote of the day

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

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

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

Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

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

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

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

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

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

Why be second best at anything?

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

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.

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

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

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

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.

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

If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.

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

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

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.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

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

For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

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

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!

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.

Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.

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

You should never try and out guess Mother Nature because when you do, you come off second best.