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Favorite Quotes - Horsey or not

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#1 ·
So, I'm a bit of a nerd and have a white board in my barn that I like to put inspirational quotes on for myself and my students. Always looking for new ones, so please share!

Here's what is currently on my board:

"The road to success is always under construction"

"Choose your attitude at the door, your horse & instructor will thank you for it"

"Elbow grease is the best tool in your grooming kit."
 
#7 ·
Kevinshorses used to have one in his signature from a paraphrase of Tom Dorance concerning horsemanship

It's knowing what happened before what happened, happened.

Think about what happened just before what happened, happened.

Think about what happened just before what happened, happened.
 
#8 ·
"Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."
"Go hard or go home."
"Earned never given."
 
#10 ·
"Kyllä se elämä kantaa" ("Life will always hold you").
"Parempi pyy pivossa kuin kymmenen oksalla" ("A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush").
"Kuolema kuittaa univelat" ("Death will cover the sleep debt").
 
#13 ·
my old Scottish grandma used to say,
"If you sue for peace at any price, the price keeps going up"

When offered a drink of water (rather than tea, beer or wine)
she always said, "Water is for going under bridges" not inspirational, but cute.

Or "when my dad said JUMP! we were to ask "how high?" on the way up"
 
#15 ·
It's from a speach Ronald Reagan gave but Man I love it! I was in East Berlin before the wall came down....

Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall


and of course:

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
 
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#17 ·
Here are a few poems, rather than quotes that I have:

Don't Quit
by: Unknown Author

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns
As every one of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out:
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far:
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while
DARING GREATLY
so that his place shall never be
with those timid souls
who know neither victory or defeat.
 
#20 ·
"I know they say at first love is the sweetest, but that first cut is the deepest. I was trying to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets. Secrets you were tellin everybody me.. don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young & unlucky. I'm surprised you couldn't tell."
Drake.
I don't know how inspirational that is, but it keeps me going.
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#25 ·
You can't keep trouble from visiting, but you don't have to offer it a chair.


Life isn't like a box of chocolates....it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.


Statistics are like a bikini, what they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.


Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.


Once you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
 
#26 ·
"Never argue with a fool, they will lower you to their level and then beat you with experience"

"The more you learn, the less you know"

"Don't tell me what to do and I won't tell you where you have to go" (that's my favorite actually, because that's how I feel when people start to "teach me how to live")

"Life like a zebra: white stripe, black stripe, white stripe, black stripe... a*s"

I can think of more, but not now... :)
 
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