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I don't think for a second that I'm the best at anything, but I know I'm really good at quite a lot of things because I work hard. — Martine McCutcheon

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late. — Omar N. Bradley

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

Don't hesitate and second-guess yourself. Just be the best you can be in every step you take toward your goal. — Lorii Myers

Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law — Auberon Waugh

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

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. — Paula Heller Garland

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one. — Florence Griffith Joyner

I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home. — Eve Best

I stared at him. Maybe it had been hard for him being second best too. — Jacqueline Wilson

When you ask one friend to dine, give him your best wine. When you ask two, the second best will do. — Matthew Pearl

I subscribed to the general theory that the worst room in the best hotel was better than the best room in a second-rate hotel. — Beatriz Williams

I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best. — James Clavell

Yes, Shelby, You're the real best thing in his life. I know. I guess I can deal with being second best."

- Emily to Shelby — Ruth Ford Elward

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. — Euripides

Life's too short to settle for second best — Elle Casey

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. — George Carlin

If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world. — Steve Backley

You're kind of... distracting.

Am I?

Yes. In the best way. — Tia Giacalone

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

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

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

The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell. — Alan Menken

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. — John Henry Newman

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children. — Michael Gove

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

Wizard's Second Rule
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions. — Terry Goodkind

Why be second best at anything? — Paul Heyman

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters. — William Blake

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

I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last ... My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be. — Nicole Malachowski

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now. — Anonymous

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. — Lorrie Moore

People like Ted Cruz, who has tried to position himself as the best second choice for [Donald] Trump supporters, wouldn't condemn him. — Mara Liasson

The safest thing to do was get rid of the second breast. I just want to give myself the best chance possible to live. — Koo Stark

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

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

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad. — Criss Jami

Sometimes second chances are the very best chances," she whispered. "Because this time we'll get it right. — Maya Banks

What about me? I'll be okay in here. The Afterlife may be second-best cheesecake, but it's still cheesecake. — Gina Damico

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything. — Michael Caine

I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read. — M. J. Hyland

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360. — Henry Spencer

Because when you finally find the one against all odds, you give him your best and let the magic of the world carry the rest. — E. Mellyberry

The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!" — Kurt Fuller

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. — Tom Morello

It is best to keep one's own state intact; to crush the enemy's state is only second best. — Sun Tzu

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready. — Robert Watson-Watt

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

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best — Doris Lessing

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

We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way. — Matt Mullenweg

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend. — Saint Augustine

Second thoughts, they say, are best. — John Dryden

'Expect the best, but prepare for the worst.' I'm good at the first part, crap at the second. — Justine Larbalestier

Laughter is the best medicine ... smiling is second — Ian Somerhalder

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. — Ann Aguirre

So what's your second suggestion?"
"Tread lightly."
"That's it? That's the best advice you can give me?"
"All right, tread very lightly. — Sarah MacLean

I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more. — Catherine Sanderson

Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin to heaven. — Cormac McCarthy

People say love isn't supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they're gone. — Julie Johnson

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

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. — Christian Nestell Bovee

If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win. — Daniel Dennett

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

The best time to plant a tree was forty years ago. The second best time is today. — Robin S. Sharma

The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign. — John O'Donohue

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. — John D. Rockefeller

Tea tasted the best at its second pouring. A — Anchee Min

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture. — William Shakespeare

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. — John W. Kirklin

I think I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world. I travel around looking for the best waves and appreciate it every second. — Rob Machado

First is the worst, second is the same, last is the best in any old game. — Christopher Paul Curtis

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third. — Shane Warne

The, per second great thought investment will yield the best hourly harvest of great life. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up. — John Grogan

The second best thing after a gift itself is the way of giving it — Ali Boussi

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. — Herman Melville

My imagination plus Vibrizzio is not only equal to but also greater than a real man. Why should I settle for second best? — Nicki Elson

Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second. — Steven Tyler

ABREAST
He who aims
to keep abreast
is for ever
second best. — Piet Hein

It was like she had dropped away for a second - my best friend, my only real friend - and in her place was a stranger. That — Lauren Oliver

A gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; — Herman Melville

Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer. — David Hurn

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it. — Nathanael Emmons

The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second. — Jose Ferreira

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile. — Ted Allen

For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second. — Robert Preston

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. — Georgie Fame

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

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

I spit
honey out of my mouth:
nothing is second-best
after the sweet of Eros. — Hilda Doolittle

Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but Nutella and shoes seem to run a close second. — David Alejandro Fearnhead

I know what it's like to be second-best to people you love. Hell, not even second-best. Third-best. Fifth best. In some scenarios, the worst. — Krista Ritchie

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

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done — Fred Rogers

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

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 — Sophocles