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.
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!
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.
No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.
You are the only you. . . You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
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.
No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.
Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test.
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.
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.
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.
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
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
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
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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.
Why be second best at anything?
Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
