Best 31 quotes in «rat race quotes» category

A bus drives past and I’m nauseated by a whiff of exhaust. Then rotting fish. The rancid stench of sewage. Is it garbage day? I’m trapped in the pungent fog, in the dreary suburban-style shops, the rat race of city life. The city, even on the west coast, has the power to beat us down, to suck us of passion, to crush our dreams.

A mortal, a sinner, a lost soul... yet just a number in this rat race we call life.

A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly

Another reptilian brain disguised as a modest mouse in the rat race.

Only a rat can win a rat race.

Children need time to become themselves--through play and social interaction. If you overwhelm a child with stuff--with choices and pseudochoices--before they are ready, they will only know one emotional gesture: More!

It is often the job of the advert to highlight the product’s strengths and the target audience’s weaknesses.

If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses.

It’s hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who’s a stranger to him. But then again, we are all strangers to ourselves, caught up in the monotony of daily life, stuck in our routines, never really stopping to think about what will happen to us if we fall off track.

Financial Freedom is less about Financials and more about FREEDOM

It requires more toughness to resist the world than to join in the rat-race

Societies need self sacrificing ignorant crowd; Religions need fearful followers; Systems need obedient slaves; Corporate world needs compulsive consumers, and I NEED THE COURAGE TO RISE ABOVE THESE FOUR PARASITES.

Life had become some kind of profound competition, where my emotional loss was substituted by my professional success. I became a part of what they call the rat race.

Suppose you want something very much. You think that if you don’t get that something, happiness won’t be possible. You get caught in that idea. But, in reality, there are people who have that thing who are miserable, and there people who don’t have that thing who are perfectly happy.

The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

The truth of the matter is that most major success in this right-brain, internet-connected, uber-competitive world no longer comes from doing things consecutively. If you do things consecutively, you lose. This is a fact. Slow and steady may have won the race in the past, but today, in order to even get into the race, you have to be the one organizing it too, and doing everything all at the same time.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

To win the rat race, you have to think and behave like a cat.

To enter the corporate rat race, you need to become a rat.

We criticize anyone who tries to break away from the rat race, because the idea that there is a way out scares us more than dying in the state we’re in.

We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary.

We cam leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it.

Whenever we have fifteen free minutes, an hour or two, we have the habit of using our computers or cell phones, music, or conversations to forget and to run away from the reality of the elements that make up our beings.

When we practice walking with awareness, our solid peaceful steps cultivate the energy of mindfulness and bring us back to the present moment. When we sit and follow our breathing, aware of our in-breath and out-breath, we are cultivating the energy of mindfulness. When we have a meal in mindfulness, we invest all our being in the present moment and are aware of our food and of those who are eating with us. We can cultivate the energy of mindfulness, whatever we are doing—when we are working, or cleaning up, and even when we are being intimate with our loved one. Just a few days practicing like this can increase our energy of mindfulness, and that energy will help us, protect us, and give us courage to go back to ourselves, to see and embrace what is there in our territory.

You are the part of rat race because you are letting them treat you like a rat. This is the modern definition of a slave.

We can leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it

What makes more sense in today's world? Thinking about future, she ruined her present? Or Thinking about present, she ruined her future?

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

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