"It takes two lifetimes to learn dressage. "
Can’t remember the author, sorry.
“Ride him like he’s gonna do everything right”.
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 Salern
You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
– Dagobert D. Runes
I would fain ask such stupid people [those who fancy that by beating and spurring they will make a dressed horse in one morning only] whether by beating a boy they would teach him to read without first showing him the alphabet? Surely they would beat him to death before they would make him read.
– Reproduced from The Man Who Listens to Horses –
A good rider can hear his horse speak to him. A great rider can hear his horse whisper. A bad rider won’t hear his horse even if it screams at him!
~ Unattributed
A man of kindness, to his horse is kind. He was designed thine equal, not thy drudge. Remember his creator is thy judge.
~ Unattributed
Man has not the right to demand a horse to work. He can only ask.
~ Unattributed
What a horse does under constraint, he does without understanding, and with no more grace than a dancer would show if he was whipped and goaded.
Under such treatment horse and man alike will do more that is ugly than graceful. A horse must make the most graceful and brilliant appearance in all respects of his own will.
~ Xenophon
