Quotes

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference."

"The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a Stable" -- Unknown

"Dance like nobody's watching, Love like you've never been hurt, Work like you don't need money, and Ride like you can't fall off." -- Doris Woods

"Balance the possible risk with the benefit gained by taking that particular risk, and ask yourself, 'Is it worth it?'" -- Sharlene

"Cause your ideas to become your horse's ideas, but understand his ideas first" -- Pat Parelli

"Not all who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkein

"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

"To ride a horse well, you have to know it as well as you know your best friend." -- Katie Monahan Prudent

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Unknown

"...and God sought to bestow upon man a supreme mark of his blessing, God created the horse. The horse could run faster than the deer, jump higher than the goat, and endure longer than the wolf. Man, being encompassed by elements that sought to destroy them, would have been a slave, had the horse not made him king."

"My doctrine is this: that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." -- Anna Sewell

"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door." -- Kyle Chandler

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." - Billings

"For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his conceptes, emerges ahead of his accomplishments." - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

"There is so much more to riding than winning. There is that special bond between horse & rider that can take the pair to the moon and back. The hours spent grooming, and just loving your equine companion. The hard work that goes into preparing for a show and not being upset if you return home with nothing. The dedication to ride after a very hard fall. The love for the horse and not just the sport." --Jen Mignard

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principle difference between a dog and a man." -- Mark Twain

"The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way" -- Unknown to me

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood" -- Unknown to me

"A successful man is one who builds his empire on the bricks that others throw at him" -Unknown

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." -Michelangelo

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -Mother Theresa

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." -Sir Winston Churchill

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -Martin Luther King Jr.

"Enthusiasm is like a ripple in the water, it spreads." -Bruce Lee

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly." -Langston Hughes

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box." -Italian Proverb

"My treasures do not chink or glitter, They gleam in the sun and neigh the night" -Old Arab Proverb