They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that. — Kevin Keegan
Better the best of the worst than the worst of the best. — Yiddish Proverbs
Short Second Rate Quotes
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people. — Joseph Joubert
I’d rather be probably out of second and third place so I don’t have to go to the prize-giving. — Kimi Raikkonen
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. — Abraham Maslow
Nobody remembers second place. — John Cena
To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great. — Indian Proverbs
Mediocrity is the elephant in the room. — Kevin Spacey
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. — Julius Caesar
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. — Julius Caesar
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. — Truman Capote
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. — Aesop
Second Rate Image Quotes
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
What Is A Rate Quotes
A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided. — Ruben Hinojosa
The exchange-rate trap, another legacy of this former president Alberto Fernández’s government, not only constitutes a social and productive nightmare, but also the surplus of money today is double what it was before the Rodrigazo economic crisis of 1975. — Javier Milei
No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. — Virginia Woolf
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work. — Usher
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast! — Jean De La Bruyere
Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing. — Susan Sontag
People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you.
I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited. — Richard Thaler
If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God. — Paul Krugman
I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing. — Miguel
I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy rate, you know literacy in the United States was a lot higher in 1890 than it is now. — Milton Friedman
1 Quotes
It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%. — Bernie Sanders
Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful. — Bernie Sanders
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange it for it.
Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change. — W. Edwards Deming
I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time. — Nick Saban
A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary? — Niki Lauda
Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow.
A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger." — Gary Smalley
People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done. — Tony Gaskins
As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. — Ayrton Senna
A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen. — Peter Brook
Second-class Quotes
I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. — Smedley Butler
We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth. — Mark Levin
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind. — James Meredith
Life always offers you a second chance. Its called tomorrow.
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is. — Tucker Carlson
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant. — H. Rap Brown
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss
If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
The entire political class and ruling Wall Street class are zero-percent-interest zombies who talk about 'deflation' in the value of their second, third, and fourth homes. This is paper-deflation, zombie-deflation, and has nothing to do with the real economy. — Max Keiser
You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. — Lena Horne
The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country. — Martin McGuinness
In the kingdom of God there are no second-class citizens. — David S. Baxter
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Judy Garland
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. — A. A. Milne
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president. — Richard M. Nixon
Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him. — Joe Frazier
China became the second biggest economy in the world by pegging their currency to the dollar at an artificially cheap rate. — Max Keiser
There is a rawness and a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Sell out to get it. Don't listen to the whines of those who have settled for a second-rate life and want you to do the same so they won't feel guilty. Your goal is not to live long; it's to live. — Max Lucado
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. — Doris Lessing
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear. — Uell Stanley Andersen
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi. — Luis Walter Alvarez
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate. — Agnes De Mille
If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own — Donald O. Clifton
Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered. — Edwin Powell Hubble
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. — Jeff Cooper
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . . — Oscar Wilde
Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else. — Judy Garland
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. — Patrick Kavanagh
When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category. — Michael Arad
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. — Maurice Ravel
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. — Paul-Jean Toulet
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. — Judy Garland
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. — Sam Houston
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil
I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class. — Witold Gombrowicz
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century — Ronald Fisher
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery. — Joyce Carol Oates
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. — Cyril Connolly
He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum. — Leo Buscaglia
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status. — Stephen Harper
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one. — Sarah Waters
Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the third remove. The voice of a second-rate person is more impressive than the published opinion of superior ability. — Harold Innis
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic. — Steve Jobs
We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave. — Lindsey Graham
I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union. — Thomas R. Marshall
Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong. — Martin Rees
For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter’s position, ready to run. — Eric Jerome Dickey
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. — Jean De La Bruyere
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation. — Stephen Neill
Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck. — Donald Horne
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. — G. H. Hardy
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