The horse has always inspired mankind, resulting in some beautiful horse quotes and sayings that have been edged in time. The free spirit, the strength, the unending pool of energy, and the wonderful nature of the horse touches the thoughts and lives of everyone who comes in contact with them.
The natural grace of this beast can enchant anyone’s heart. Whether you are an athlete or are from any other walk of life, the horse has a magical charm on everyone.
There is no other beast like the horse. It is as much valued and loved for its beauty as for its strength. It inspires, it motivates, and it promises to take you to another world of glory. There are no amounts of words that can describe a horse. Still, many have attempted to describe this beautiful creature in different ways.
Quotes About Horses
A horse is poetry in motion.
Unknown
The path to my heart is paved with hoofprints.
Unknown
A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
Pam Brown
Some of my best friends never say a word to me.
Unknown
When I count my blessings, I count my horse twice.
Unknown
Horse Sense Sayings
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
William Shakespeare
All bonds are built on trust; without it, you have nothing.
Unknown
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
Winston S. Churchill
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Funny Horse Quotes
It’s always been and always will be the same in the world. The horse does the work, and the coachman is tipped.
Unknown
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone
There are only two emotions that belong in the saddle; one is a sense of humor, and the other is patience.
John Lyons
A polo handicap is a person’s ticket to the world.
Sir Winston Churchill
They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
Ben Johnson
Good Horse Quotations
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W.C Fields
You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
Dagobert D. Runes
Horseback riding is the only sport where your equipment can decide not to cooperate with you. Feeling down? Saddle up.
Unknown
Horses are the dolphins of the plains, the spirits of the wind; yet we sit astride them for the sake of being well-groomed, whereas they could have all the desire in the world to bolt, but instead, they adjust their speed and grace, only to please us, never to displease.
Lauren Salerno
Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.
Pam Brown
A good rider can hear his horse speak to him. A great rider can hear his horse whisper. But a bad rider won’t hear his horse even if it screams at him!
Unknown
In training horses, one trains himself
Antoine De Pluvinet
You can lead a horse to water quote
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
Unknown
Horse Sayings
A great horse will change your life. The exceptional ones define it.
Unknown
Blame it or praise it; there is no denying the wild horse in us.
Virginia Wolfe
A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.
Monty Roberts
Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness – I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.
Regina Brett
I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace.
Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.
John Lubbock
A horse doesn’t care how much you know until he knows how much you care.
Pat Parelli
Animals were once, for all of us, teachers. They instructed us in ways of being and perceiving that extended our imaginations, that were models for additional possibilities.
Joan McIntyre
You try to do the best with what you’ve got and ignore everything else. That’s why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
Jimmy Iovine
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Taylor
Equestrian Quotes
If you’re lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.
Chris LeDoux
It is the horse’s gift to connect us with Heaven and our own footsteps.
Ronni Sweet
All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.
Jane Smiley
There are other things that I could do, but there’s really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.
Chantal Sutherland
A surgeon wouldn’t sell his tools. A lawyer doesn’t sell his law books. I’m not going to sell my horse. I’m a sportsman.
Ian Millar
Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.
Nuno Oliveira
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Strength and Beauty
When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes that can be healing or move you deeply.
Buck Brannaman
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
R.S. Surtees
Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.
Craig Ferguson
It is the difficult horses that have the most to give you.
Lendon Gray
What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age.
French Proverb
When riding a horse, we leave our fear, troubles, and sadness behind on the ground.
Juli Carlson
The essence of Horse Spirit is freedom. It is a noble and resilient force, with limitless energy at its core.
Lawren Leo
Inspirational
I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.
Clare Balding
A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.
Mark Twain
A horse gallops with his lungs perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.
Frederico Tesio
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
Winston Churchill
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Inspiring Horse Quotations
It’s about discipline. It’s about following instructions, and it’s about the execution of the plan. That’s what sport is.
Ian Millar
The lonely horse is the best reason to wake up in the morning.
Unknown
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and freedom.
Sharon Ralls Lemon
If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
Ian Millar
Grace and Beauty Horse Quotes
The horse, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back.
Amber Senti
There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse.
Missy Lyons
A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.
Rebecca Carroll
For one to fly, one needs only to take the reins.
Melissa James Pam Brown
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
Winston Churchill
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Herman Melville
There are many wonderful places in the world, but one of my favorite places is on the back of my horse.
Rolf Kopfle
I’d rather ride on a Mustang, than in one.
BaileyAnn Neal
Wherever man has left his footprints in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the hoofprints of a horse beside it.
John Trotwood Moore
Beautiful Horse Quotes
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no other feeling in the world to compare with it if one loves a great horse. It gives a thrill that nothing else ever can. It cannot be put into words, because words cannot express it.
Samuel Riddle
We have almost forgotten how strange a thing it is that so huge and powerful and intelligent an animal as a horse should allow another, and far more feeble animal, to ride upon its back.
Peter Gray
Wild horses don’t know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.
Arabian Proverb
The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet never a slave.
Ronald Duncan
A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Xenophon
If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.
Clare Balding
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
Herman Melville
A canter is a cure for every evil.
Benjamin Disraeli
When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, ‘I want to make a creature of you. Condense.’ And the Wind condensed.
Emir Abd-el-Kader
You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.
Charles M. Russell
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a horse.
John Galsworthy
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and freedom.
Sharon Ralls Lemon
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12 Popular Horse Idioms
- Darkhorse – the long shot.
- Hold your horses.
- Flog a dead horse.
- A one-horse race
- Horse sense.
- Straight from the horse’s mouth.
- Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
- A horse of a different color.
- Eat like a horse.
- Get off your high horse.
- A one-horse town.
- Change horses in the middle of the stream.
National Day of the Horse
This day is celebrated on December 13 and encourages U.S. citizens “to be mindful of the contribution of horses to the economy, history, and character of the United States.”
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is an author and the founder of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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