A Top 35+ List of Uplifting and Inspirational Horse Quotes

Uplifting and Inspirational Horse Quotes – When you think of freedom, the horse is one of the many animals used to symbolize it. Whether it be about riding horses, regular horses, or wild horses, there is a range of topics and metaphors that star the animal. When it comes to quotes, there is a long list of lines that use the equestrian as a source of inspiration. These are just a few of the top Uplifting and Inspirational Horse Quotes to bring joy:

• “There is much we can learn from a friend who happens to be a horse.”
  – Aleksandra Layland
  
• “When riding a horse, we borrow freedom.”
  – Helen Thomson
  
• “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
  
• “Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls, they give us hope.”
  – Toni Robinson
  
• “Some horses will test you, some will teach you, and some will bring out the best in you.”
  
• “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
  
• “To many, the words love, hope and dreams are synonymous with horses.”
  
• “Horses lend us the wings we lack.”
  – Pam Brown
  
• “We will never have to tell our horse that we are sad, happy, confident, angry, or relaxed. He already knows – long before we do.”
  – Marijke de Jong
  
• “To ride a horse is to ride the sky.”
  
• “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
  
• “In the steady gaze of the horse shines a silent eloquence that speaks of love and loyalty, strength and courage. It is the window that reveals to us how willing is his spirit, how generous his heart”
  
• “If you have gained the trust of a horse, you have won a friend for life.”
  
• “A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.”
  – Beryl Markham, ‘West With The Night’
  
• “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

More Uplifting and Inspirational Horse Quotes

• “I call horses ‘divine mirrors’ – they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.”
  – Allan Hamilton
  
• “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
  
• “It is the difficult horses that have the most to give you.”
  – Lendon Gray
  
• “I have seen things so beautiful they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.”
  
• “A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.”
  – Federico Tesio
  
• “A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.”
  – Gerald Raftery
  
• “I learnt from my horse that strength is complemented by nobility and loyalty.”
  – Gabriel Oliverio
  
• “When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.”
  – Sir Winston Churchill
  
• “And indeed, a horse who bears himself proudly is a thing of such beauty and astonishment that he attracts the eyes of all beholders. No one will tire of looking at him as long as he will display himself in his splendor.”
  – Xenophon
  
• “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
  
• “It is the horse’s gift to connect us with Heaven and our own footsteps.”
  – Ronni Sweet
  
• “A horse allows you to fly without wings.”
  
• “Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”
  – W.C. Fields
  
• “Horses do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
  
• I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a horse.”
  – John Galsworthy

Other Memorable Quotes About Horses

• “Every different horse has a different personality, like a human.”
  – Nikola Jokic
  
• “Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time.”
  – Matthew Stover
  
• “My horses are my friends, not my slaves.”
  – Reiner Klimek
  
• “If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question or asked the question wrong.”
  – Pat Parelli
  
• “A good horse should be seldom spurred.”
  – Thomas Fuller
  
• “Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.”
  – Ajith Kumar
  
• “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
  
• “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
  
• “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
  
• “A pony is a childhood dream; a horse is an adult treasure.”
  – Rebecca Carroll

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