Top 71 Horse Rider Quotes
#1. I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.
Randeep Hooda
#2. I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.
Sharni Vinson
#3. Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#4. But talent - if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.
Elizabeth Hand
#5. Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.
Francesca Lia Block
#6. Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.
Alois Podhajsky
#7. The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony ... a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.
Walter Zettl
#8. You get that horse to really operate as if he's your legs and you can take that anywhere you want. You can dress up in any kind of clothes you like. You can be a jumper, dressage rider, trail rider, cowboy, anything.
Buck Brannaman
#9. The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.
William Cavendish
#10. [From Pale Horse, Pale Rider]
The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . .
Katherine Anne Porter
#11. Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
Cornelia Funke
#12. You can kiss me if you like," she said.
Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona," he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.
Anthony Horowitz
#13. A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.
Steven Pressfield
#14. Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.
Nuno Oliveira
#15. A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
Clive James
#16. You're a stubborn, ill-trained horse." she said
The horse snorted and walked towards the North Road of his own volition.
"Hey!" Karigan pulled back on the reins. "Whoa. Who do you think is in charge here?
Kristen Britain
#17. How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#18. Giddon was younger even than Raffin, strong, and a good rider.
Kristin Cashore
#19. To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#20. A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.
Nuno Oliveira
#21. There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This is the basic, most important principle to be preserved in equitation.
Alois Podhajsky
#22. It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
Nicholas Evans
#24. Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.
Nuno Oliveira
#25. A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
Prince Philip
#26. Train as if you had to bring the horse down, not the rider. Fight bulls, not men, and men won't best you.
Aleksandr Voinov
#27. The horse-shoe nail. Remember the old poem? 'For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of the shoe the horse was lost. For want of the horse the rider was lost. For want -
Philip K. Dick
#28. The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.
William Cavendish
#29. He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger ... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
William Shakespeare
#30. I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.
Dana Delany
#34. The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
But reach for it ... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.
Rumi
#35. Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.
Michael Morpurgo
#36. One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.
Marquis De Lafayette
#37. Boy, you're like a horse.
Just now sated with seed,
You've come back to my stable,
Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow,
An icy spring, shady groves.
Theognis Of Megara
#38. I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.' Vega
Amanda Hocking
#39. And I looked,' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just stared in amazement. 'It's in the gospel book,' he explained sheepishly, 'and it just cam to mind.
Bernard Cornwell
#40. Whenever a horse has learned a new movement or a new aid in its basic form, the rider should give him a break and deliberately ride something else for a few days or weeks. When he returns to the movement, he will notice how much more easily the training will proceed.
Reiner Klimke
#42. To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#43. He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.
John Dryden
#44. Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.
Dean Koontz
#45. When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.
Nuno Oliveira
#46. In the calmness of the walk, horse and rider can find the time to think and to prepare the quality of the following trot and canter.
Nuno Oliveira
#47. Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#48. Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.
William Shakespeare
#49. Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I have the best horses.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#50. In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider.
Muriel Wace
#51. You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'
Napoleon Hill
#52. A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.
Diane Crump
#53. A little neglect may breed mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want a horse the rider was lost; for want of the rider the battle was lost.
Benjamin Franklin
#54. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and her horse.
Robert Smith
#55. The war is won but the battle rages, the lion is toothless yet roars, the clown frowns but the Son Shines, the Trumpet is ready to sound, the sword drawn, and the white horse ready to descend, whose rider is called Faithful and True.
Jonah Books
#56. For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
George Herbert
#57. An old adage says that a good rider can hear his horse speak and a great rider can hear his horse whisper.
Elizabeth Letts
#58. The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
Horace
#59. There aint never a horse that could'nt be rode
and never a rider that could'nt be throwed
Gary Cooper
#60. A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan.
Pam Brown
#61. When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
Ian Millar
#62. Never a horse that can't be rode and never a rider that can't be throwed. (I'll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, a cowboy and rodeo rider in his younger years.)
Earle Gray
#63. There are times in every rider's life when it is necessary to apologize to a horse ...
Tamora Pierce
#64. I started to realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse does what he does. This method works well for me because of the kinship that develops between horse and rider.
Buck Brannaman
#65. For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
or want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horse shoe nail.
Unknown Author 386
#66. Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ...
Katherine Anne Porter
#67. There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.
Gary Cooper
#68. The horse must understand and accept any demands made by rider without any resistance. Reward the horse each time he does what is asked of him. Never ask for more than he is capable of giving. Make him a COMPANION, and not a slave, then you will see what a true friend he is.
Nuno Oliveira
#69. He is dressed in a long, white robe and in his hand is a white cap. I draw up as he passes down the hall; he does not see me. Shortly I hear a horse leaving. There is much I do not know about him, but tonight I know one of his secrets. He is a midnight rider.
Nancy B. Brewer
#70. I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
