50 Horsepower Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous horsepower quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational horsepower quotes. Hopefully, these horsepower quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your horsepower knowledge!

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Famous Horsepower Quotes

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races - Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races — Carroll Shelby

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. — Mark Donohue

We're far from having too much horsepower...my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear. — Mark Donohue

There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction. — Carroll Shelby

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine. — Henry Miller

No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough. — Mark Donohue

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse. — Juan Manuel Fangio

Power and speed be hands and feet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power and speed be hands and feet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load. — Paul Bryant

Long distance tells you a horse's real strength; Time tells you a person's true heart. — Changpeng Zhao

In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be — Keith Duckworth

To plow like a horse / to work like a horse. — Russian Proverbs

A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character. — Federico Tesio

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. — Mario Andretti

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. — J. D. Salinger

Short Horsepower Quotes

  • The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be — Warren Buffett
  • The best investment you can make is in yourself. — Warren Buffett
  • Heart power is better than horsepower. — Henry John Heinz
  • Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races. — Carroll Smith
  • I love horsepower. — Caroll Shelby
  • Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool. — P. J. O'Rourke

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More Horsepower Quotes

Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. — Sam Altman

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be. — Warren Buffett

There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did. — George Jones

I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything. — Carroll Shelby

Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul. — Albie Sachs

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower. — Katharine Hepburn

When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life. — Richard Hammond

I was born with a lot of horsepower. There was a lot cooking inside me, a lot of energy, and Dad was a strong man by will and by intelligence, and the combination of us was almost bound to result in periodic explosions. He and I disagreed politically, very violently, and things would get hectic around the house. — Richard Boone

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress. — Sydney J. Harris

Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse. — Bryan Callen

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower. — Aly Khan

All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little. — Peter Shaffer

I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything. — Caroll Shelby

To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression. — Albert Renger-Patzsch

There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed me off, so I decided to put something in front of it to distract them. “I got '16' from a traditional American folk song, where a man is singing about his dead wife and 16 black horses are pulling her casket up to the cemetery. I liked the image of 16 working horses. — David Eugene Edwards

My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la! — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! — John Green

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