Speed Quotes

“Success is a slow process, and quitting does not speed it up.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”
― David Farragut

“I cannot make everybody else as rapid as myself.”
― Alexander Hamilton

“Do everything quickly and well.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“The accelerator is stuck and humanity is driving at full speed into the brick wall of extinction.”
― Steven Magee

“By and large, our present problem is one of attitudes and implements. We are remodeling the Alhambra with a steam-shovel, and we are proud of our yardage. We shall hardly relinquish the shovel, which after all has many good points, but we are in need of gentler and more objective criteria for its successful use”
― Aldo Leopold

“Reaching your destination is more important than the direction and speed at which you travel.”
― R.J. Intindola

“... haste can do nothing with these hills. I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

“That some contrivance has been devised or some increment of power obtained which will enabled human beings to move faster … or later more rapidly the position of matter in space than before is in the contemporary world regarded as a sufficient reason for making use of it. Nobody ever asks whether the use of the contrivance, the employment of the power, will make us happier, wiser, or better.”
― C.E.M. Joad

“Time is everything. Speed is of the essence.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice, The Law of the Universe

“Speed does not always kill. And not only that, sometimes speed saves a life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Light is so fast that nothing can move faster than its own shadow.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Should one ask: 'How do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: 'Seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.'

Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where has taken no precautions.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“They had conjured so many devices to save time and to make life easier, yet everyone walked around faster and looking more anguished.”
― Rachel Givney, Jane in Love

“Jimmy Baldwin was a whirlwind who stirred everything and everybody. He lived at a dizzying pace and I loved spinning with him.”
― Maya Angelou, A Song Flung Up to Heaven

“There's always that someone that your heart speeds for, ever since you first saw them.”
― Nitya Prakash

“We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

“The left-hand lane is exclusively for the use of Porsches, BMWs and Mercedes. Dark-coloured vehicles only please. If you're driving a white or silver car please stick to the middle lane at all times and moderate your speed. Loser!”
― Cathy Dobson

“I'll always remember a certain radio exchange that occurred one day as Walt and I were screaming across southern California 13 miles high. We were monitoring various radio transmissions from other aircraft as we entered Los Angeles Center's airspace. Though they didn't really control us, they did monitor our movement across their scope. I heard a Cessna ask for a readout of its groundspeed. "90 knots," Center replied. Moments later a Twin Beech required the same. "120 knots," Center answered. We weren't the only one proud of our speed that day as almost instantly an F-18 smugly transmitted, "Ah, Center, Dusty 52 requests groundspeed readout." There was a slight pause. "525 knots on the ground, Dusty." Another silent pause. As I was thinking to myself how ripe a situation this was, I heard the familiar click of a radio transmission coming from my back-seater. It was at that precise moment I realized Walt and I had become a real crew, for we were both thinking in unison. "Center, Aspen 20, you got a ground speed readout for us?" There was a longer than normal pause. "Aspen, I show one thousand seven hundred and forty-two knots." No further inquiries were heard on that frequency.”
― Brian Shul, Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet

“Suicide is as easy as driving off the cliffs of the beautiful coastal highway at full speed.”
― Steven Magee

“Always move fast...you never know who’s catching up!”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“When the enemy presents an opportunity, speedily take advantage of it. Anticipate him in seizing something he values and move in accordance with a date secretly fixed. The doctrine of war is to follow the enemy situation in order to decide on battle. Therefore at first be shy as a maiden. When the enemy gives you an opening be swift as a hare and he will be unable to withstand you.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“we are entering an age where speed, flexibility, innovation and execution matter much more than decades-old qualifications or antiquated experiences dressing up a lengthy resume.”
― Gyan Nagpal, The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

“She looked at the guy. Anger seethed inside her. "Give me that dumb ball. This has not been a good day, and I really can't take any more."
"Come get it, then." He smirked and ran away from her, kicking the ball lightly with the inside of his feet. He didn't look down, and he never lost control over it.
Tianna sighed and shook her head.
"Come on." He taunted her, and picked up speed. "You afraid you can't get it back from me?"
Something exploded inside her. She felt it like a hot fire flashing up to her face. She dashed after him and caught him in seconds. He seemed surprised by her speed but also delighted.
When she reached him, he darted away, changing direction, but it seemed as if her body had anticipated where he was going to go and she ran parallel with him, her feet tipping in and trying to steal the ball.
He laughed and shifted his weight in one direction, then took off running in the other, using the inside of his foot to roll the ball.
"Wrong thing to do," she shouted angrily. This time her feet went on automatic. She ran alongside him, then swung her leg in front of him and struck the near side of the ball. It popped away from him.
Her foot shot out again. He tripped and fell flat on his back.
She picked up the ball and sauntered back to him, then held out her hand to help him up.
"You don't have to smile so big," he said with a matching grin. He took her hand. His felt warm and strong.
She couldn't help but smile. No wonder they put her on the team so quickly. Her feet had talent. She was a master.”
― Lynne Ewing, The Lost One

“Curate a lean life that allows you to move flexibly through your universe to experience greater joy at speed.⁣”
― Richie Norton

“Silence fell with night, but Jacob couldn't entirely silence his racing mind, nor speed it up to the finish line.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“Ticking clock of the day chases us faster than the speed of our mind’s light.”
― Munia Khan, Attainable

“बता दो मेरे चक्कों की हवा निकालनेवालों को
कि मेरे ज़िगर-ए-इतमाद से ही मेरी रफ्तार है

BATA DO MERE CHAKKON KI HAWA NIKALNEWALON KO
KI MERE ZIGAR-E-ITMAAD SEY HI MERI RAFTAAR HAI
itmaad=confidence

TELL THIS TO THOSE WHO OFTEN DEFLATE MY TYRES
MY SPEED COMES FROM THE CONFIDENCE IN MY HEART”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Movement - Success of your business depends on your speed of movement in all areas - clients, invoices, accounting, content, marketing, ideas, website, etc.”
― Chinmai Swamy

“More coal, more smoke, more heat, more steam, more pressure, more speed. The engine raced forward streaming black smoke like a funerary ribbon rippling in the breeze.”
― Martin R Jackson : Running with Finn McCool