It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. — Lewis Carroll
Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race. — Pam Grier
During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise. — Akiane Kramarik
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock. — Dave Allen
Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals. — Fabian Cancellara
Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other. — Christopher McDougall
God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit. — LeCrae
Running from your problems is a race you'll never win. — Kid Cudi
You don't race cars, you race the rule book — Smokey Yunick
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. — Bill Shoemaker
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. — Willie Shoemaker
The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. — Bob Marley
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk. — Bill Rodgers
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired, and get paid just enough money not to quit. — George Carlin
In the race for quality, there is no finish line — David T. Kearns
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives. — C. L. R. James
Rat Race Image Quotes
Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.
Being In The Rat Race Quotes
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. — Jimmy Reid
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents. — Margaret Halsey
In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial. — Paul Goodman
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
It's not about being a sex prostitute. It's about this power play in the war of the sexes. It's a rat race, like, "I'm in charge," "No, I'm in charge." — Lykke Li
Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction. — June Goodfield
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat. — Richard Koch
Rat Pack Quotes
The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow. — Ray Liotta
Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing. — James Darren
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes. — Frank Sinatra
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. — Jasper Fforde
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes. — Frank Sinatra
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. — Roger Ebert
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned. — Walter Abendroth
It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started. — Lorna Luft
I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul music like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and The Rat Pack and swing music. — Ella Henderson
If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death - like man. Let us not crawl down amongst the rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be rats ourselves! — George Lincoln Rockwell
True success is exiting some rat race to modulate one’s activities for peace of mind. — Edward O. Thorp
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were. — Daniel Berrigan
The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people... — David Foster
The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. — Ivan Illich
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone. — Eknath Easwaran
Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. — Hunter S. Thompson
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it. — Abbie Hoffman
Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book. — R. D. Laing
I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric! — John Cleese
Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it. — Dewitt Jones
Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. — Gene Perret
You can win the rat race but you're still a rat. — Banksy
I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats. — Jerry Nachman
Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York. — Alice Neel
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent! — Bette Davis
My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream. — Vidya Balan
What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again. — Sheryl Sandberg
Only a rat can win a rat race. — Michael Franti
TV is the rat race of the century. — Groucho Marx
Failure of success is not race-related; it's not socioeconomics-related; it is really predictable, based on principles that are laid down by God the Creator by which we are supposed to function. If we find them and obey them, success becomes inevitable. That's why I was able to move from rats to 40,000 feet in the air in my own aircraft. — Myles Munroe
Myths and legends die hard in America. — Hunter S. Thompson
I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while. — Tom Wilson
Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat. — Mike Tyson
My place, your place, slapped face, rat race. — Roger Daltrey
A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat. — Kurt Voss
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat. — Carolyn Heilbrun
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of the rat race is not yet final. — Hunter S. Thompson
Testosterone is the hormone of collaboration and competition that, whenever we compete on a team, we collaborate with our teammates. And most of us in our daily life, to the extent that we have to compete with the rat race in the world out there, we're collaborating with other people at the same time. The two are hand in hand. — Po Bronson
I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do. — Paul Smoker
For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other. — Alan Watts
So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that. — Will Hobbs
I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality. — Donald Freed
It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine. — Paul Gruchow
Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat. — Linda Ellerbee
Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth. — Ilana Mercer
Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown. — Van Morrison
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