# Quote — Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer

> In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

- Author: [Lloyd Alexander](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander.md)
- Book: [Taran Wanderer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/taran-wanderer.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alexander#Book_IV:_Taran_Wanderer_(1967)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/taran-wanderer/in-the-race

## More from this book

> If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/taran-wanderer/if-i-fret.md)

> “Count yourself lucky,” the potter went on, “that you have understood this now and not spent your years in vain hope. This much have you learned, and no learning is wasted.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/taran-wanderer/count-yourself-lucky.md)

> If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/taran-wanderer/if-i-do-find.md)