Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
Horace Walpole

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
Carl Jung

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl Jung

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
David Ogilvy

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Woodrow Wilson

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Epicurus

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
Jack Nicholson

There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
Bud Abbott

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Emo Philips

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel Proust