Quotes with second-best

Quotes 621 till 640 of 1600.

  • Theodore Roosevelt It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Barbara Boxer It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Boris Pasternak It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
    Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series (1963)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Winston Churchill It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Walter Lippmann It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Hilaire Belloc It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Epictetus It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • George S. Clason It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.
    George S. Clason
    American author (1874 - 1957)
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  • David J. Schwartz It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • John F. Kennedy It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Joe E. Lewis It pays to get drunk with the best people.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Ben Zobrist It really comes down to God opening the doors for me, and I'm trying to walk through them doing the best I can.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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