We are fallible. We certainly haven’t attained perfection. But we can strive for it, and the virtue is in the striving.
Carlos P. Romulo
A lot of people, they want it all to be fuzzy and warm and cosmic, but it’s no different with a horse than with a kid…You can’t always be the kid’s best friend. First you have to be the parent.
Buck Brannaman
The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall.
Confucius
Calm, forward, straight.
Alexis L´Hotte
The horse may not be doing the thing that is the right thing for what the rider is asking him, but as far as the horse is concerned, he is doing the right thing.
Tom Dorrance
Riding:The dialogue between two bodies and two souls aimed at establishing perfect harmony between them.
Waldemar Seunig
Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.
Nuno Oliveira
As the blind person touches the object before him very softly and lightly with his fingertips in order not to interfere with the work of the sensitive nerve ends by too much pressure, so it is the rider’s first obligation to keep soft and natural those parts of his body with which he feels his horse.
Gustav Steinbrecht
You can be strict, but that doesn’t mean you have to be unfair.
Buck Brannaman
Make it a habit to praise when the horse yields.
Nuno Oliveira
