Why be second best at anything?

Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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

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.

My friend Heinrich Zimmer of years ago used to say, 'The best things can't be told,' because they transcend thought. 'The second best are misunderstood,' because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can't be thought about, and one gets stuck in the thoughts. 'The third best are what we talk about.'

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