Best choices & second-choice Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.”

Giving Firsts Country Would Be Earth Choices Fortune Monsters France Ties Preference Bonaparte Second Choice

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.”

Humans Age Choices Issues Concern Human Life Ongoing Immune Second Choice

Author:Diane Duane

“If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.”

Ifs Firsts Choices Keys Bird Command If I Could Second Choice

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.”

Choices Hard Work Harder Work Harder Second Choice

Author:Noel Clarke

“When would I stop being second choice? Would I ever be number one to the person I cared most about in the world?”

World Persons Choices Numbers Second Choice

Author:A. Meredith Walters