Quotes with second-best

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1600.

• The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

  Sir James Matthew Barrie
  British playwright (1860 - 1937)
  - +

   0
• The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
  

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
  - +

   0
• The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
  - +

   0
• The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

  William Wordsworth
  English poet (1770 - 1850)
  - +

   0
• The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

  Thomas B. Macaulay
  American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
  - +

   0
• The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

  Bill Bruford
  English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
  - +

   0
• The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
  

  Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
  - +

   0
• The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

  George Macdonald
  Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
  - +

   0
• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
  

  H. Jackson Brown Jr
  American author (1940 - 2021)
  - +

   0
• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  H. Jackson Brown Jr
  American author (1940 - 2021)
  - +

   0
• The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
  

  Sir William Osler
  Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
  - +

   0
• The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

  Eupsychian Management : A Journal (1965) p. 212

  Abraham H. Maslow
  American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
  - +

   0
• The best proof of love is trust.

  Joyce Brothers
  American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
  - +

   0
• The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
  - +

   0
• The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

  Adlai Stevenson II
  American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
  - +

   0
• The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

  Walter Bagehot
  English economist (1826 - 1877)
  - +

   0
• The best reformers the world has ever seen
  are those who commence on themselves.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
  - +

   0
• The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

  Joseph Joubert
  French writer (1754 - 1824)
  - +

   0
• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank
  Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
  - +

   0
• The best revenge is massive success.
  

  Frank Sinatra
  American singer, actor, and producer (1915 - 1998)
  - +

   0

Subjects in these quotes:

• unremembered
• intelligible
• interfering
• efficiency
• government
• understand

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations