Quotes with second-best

Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 1600.

  • Ralph Waldo Trine This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Lord George Byron This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Michael Korda This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Carl Sagan This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Aristotle Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Farquhar Those who know the least obey the best.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Henry James Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Carol Bellamy Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Ovid Time is generally the best doctor.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Amy Lowell Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Horace Walpole To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
    Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Aeschylus To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • John Updike To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Gail Sheehy To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Bill Maris To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Al Oerter To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
    Al Oerter
    American athlete (1936 - 2007)
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  • Raymond Holliwell To give your best is to receive the best.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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