George Morris Equestrian Quotes & Sayings

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something. — Harold S. Kushner

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief-
woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling-
ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief'.
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Now the best thing is to put attention to your spirit. If you start putting your attention to spirit, the sweetness of the spirit itself will make the whole thing very sweet and beautiful. — Nirmala Srivastava

Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management. — George H. Morris

Marta Jolicoeur: We all learned how to ride from George and had wonderful riding careers but more than that, George taught us how to be successful in life...George had us all sized up. He used to tell me that I'm a worrier and he was right! I used to get rally nervous in the ring when I was about fifteen, and he made me go around the ring, reciting out loud, 'I know I'm going to see a distance. It might be a little short or a little long, but I know I'm going to see something.' I would have to say it loud over and over again on course... — George H. Morris

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures. — Meghan O'Rourke

Katie Prudent: One of the greatest things about those times was that everything he [George Morris] taught us in the equitation had form with meaningful function. Your straight back was for strength, and your heels were your anchor. Everything he taught us made so much sense and that knowledge translated from equitation to the jumpers. — George H. Morris

I love my teammates, and I'll do anything for them. — Pedro Martinez

The things we're most frightened of, we can't make ourselves dismiss them. — Cassandra Clare

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with ... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad. — Brett Favre