Second Place Quotes
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If you think I'm going to tell my wife she came in second place, you're out of your gourd. I'll convey the apology and not another bloody word.
— Johanna Lindsey
People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.
— Richard Rohr
He almost looks like the boy I imagined. A second prince, content with his place, unburdened by a crown that was never his.
— Victoria Aveyard
And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.
— Sarah Dessen
I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
— Sarah Dessen
You've always been my safe place, my escape when life gets crazy. You're my calm through every storm.
— Courtney Giardina
I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.
— Brian Andreas
Because I came in second place, it makes me want to work harder
— Diana DeGarmo
Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.
— Frederick Lenz
Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.
— Bonnie L. Oscarson
Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.
— Billie Jean King
All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We see the storm clouds gathering and events taking place that herald the second coming of Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham
I give dignity second place to expedience.
— Jack Vance
Second place is just the first loser.
— Dale Earnhardt
There is no second place for doing first rate work.
— Jeffrey Fry
Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.
— Mike Patton
Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
— William C. Bryant
There is no second place in a gunfight. Winners kill, losers get killed. Fight to win. Train to live. v. All
— Gary Williams
Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.
— Joe Dunthorne
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We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.
— Michael Bloomberg
Be the best. There is no second place.
— Frank Beddor
In marriage reason frequently had to take second place to Harmony
— Graeme Simsion
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
— Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
— Jonathan Swift
Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.
— Jack Bauer
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
— Maurice Greene
One of the ability of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion
— Sunday Adelaja
The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.
— Don Rickles
The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.
— Aristotle.
My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.
— Janet Jackson
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
— Sophocles
There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.
— Richard Paul Evans
Another religious fanatic to whom facts and reality took second place to dogma.
— Peter F. Hamilton
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
— Ayrton Senna
They don't give blue ribbons to second-place beers.
— Hosho McCreesh
I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 don't think about second or third place.
— Maurice Greene
Second place is really the first loser.
— George Steinbrenner
I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
— Iris Murdoch
I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all ... your ... fault!
— James Dashner
Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.
— Michael Moritz
The first place smelled like work, so I took the second.
— Charles Bukowski
I can't. If I do, I will second guess myself and nothing would get done. I'd stay in one place. I'd let my fear get me.
— Celia Mcmahon
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I did everything I could do and tried as hard as I could. In light of how I putted, I guess second place will do.
— Cristie Kerr
For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.
— Ronald Reagan
Second place is just the first place loser.
— Dale Earnhardt
The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.
— Alan Dershowitz
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
In 13 years I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place.
— Sergio Garcia
Second place is a nice title for the first loser.
— Sarah J. Maas
One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
— Brian O'Driscoll
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
— William Tyler
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
— Michael Faraday
Natural selection awards no prize for second place.
— Thomas Lewis
Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place.
— Murray Walker
Second place is the first loser.
— Dennis Anderson
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
— Woodrow Wilson
You're all playin' for second place.
— Larry Bird
