Best Rat Race Quotes

In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It’s like a rat race and even when you win you’re still a freaking rat.

Myths and legends die hard in America.

People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.

Just because it’s a rat race doesn’t mean it’s okay to be a rat.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

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.

I wouldn’t mind the rat race – if the rats would lose once in a while.

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.

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.

My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.

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.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

I can do anything I want, I’m eccentric!

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

I didn’t miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

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.

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.

I’m going to enjoy every second, and I’m going to know I’m enjoying it while I’m enjoying it. Most people don’t live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn’t make any difference whether they’ve reached the goal or not.

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It’s more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

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.

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.

TV is the rat race of the century.

Retirement: It’s nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

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.

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.

Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It’s always there if I’m open enough to see it.

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.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

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.