65 Pony Quotes On Success In Life

These pony quotes will inspire you. Pony is a small type of horse or a horse of a small breed, especially one whose height at the withers is below 14 hands 2 inches (58 inches).

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging pony quotes, pony sayings, and pony proverbs.

Best Pony Quotes

1. “A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.” ~ Rebecca Carroll
2. “A child who is happy on his pony’s back has something which will be to him a glorious memory that the years cannot dim.” ~ Muriel Wace
3. “In my world, everyone’s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!” ~ Dr. Seuss”I’m not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

4. “I’m not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

5. “If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.” ~ Chris Adrian
6. “I am a one-trick pony. But I have worked hard at something I would have liked to do even if I weren’t paid a penny for it, and made a good living at it. You can’t be luckier than that in this life, no matter who you are or what you do.” ~ Allen W. Wood
7. “The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our “dream life” now. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word “power” is “the ability to act.”” ~ Tony Robbins

8. “Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.” ~ Lou Reed

9. “Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why” ~ Dustin Hoffman
10. “If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.” ~ Alan Bradley
11. “Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

12. “I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.” ~ James Dashner

13. “The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of collaboration with another creature and of controlling it in order to improve the collaboration, the joy of fussing over it – of loving it – these, from the age of about eight to sixteen were the most completely realised delights of my life.” ~ Diana Athill
14. “If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies.
    Pony, what a funny word. Say it, pony. PO-KNEE. Now ah’ve made myself giddy with delight. Towards the ponies *laughs*” ~ Thom Yorke
15. “If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards” ~ Rudyard Kipling

16. “I’m not a gentle pony… I promise you, you will have to work to keep your seat.” ~ Julia Quinn

17. “When people ask about inspirations, and you’re like ‘oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony’, some people just think you’re insane. I’m worried to come across that way.” ~ Phillip Lim
18. “Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I’d love to be a Fairy’s child.” ~ Robert Graves
19. “There’s a boy who they call Pony! He’s always acting gross and horny! He thinks he’s got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!” ~ Cecily von Ziegesar

20. “But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.” ~ Eli Wallach

21. “Who’d want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn’t have to muck it out once a week.” ~ Terry Pratchett
22. “Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children.. when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.” ~ Geronimo
23. “So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.” ~ Kate Upton

24. “It’s not all rainbows and ponies.” ~ Hugh McCutcheon

25. “The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
26. “I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.” ~ Charles Dickens
27. “I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?” ~ Charles Portis

28. “Dirty pony, I can’t wait to hose you down.” ~ Lady Gaga

29. “There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: ‘Dad! You’re Paul McCartney, aren’t you?’ ‘Yes darling, but I’m Daddy really’.” ~ Paul McCartney , Little pony quotes
30. “I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal – you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.” ~ Amy Winehouse
31. “I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather’s estate in Kent.I wasn’t brought up to be afraid of anything.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor

32. “First you don’t want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!” ~ Homer

33. “I wouldn’t kill your pony. I’d like to believe it, anyway. I’d like to believe I wouldn’t drag you out in to the woods and leave you there, either. So far, it hasn’t come up.” ~ Richard Siken
34. “If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our “dream life” now.” ~ Tony Robbins
35. “When I’m at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.” ~ Laura Marano

36. “Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.” ~ Edna O’Brien

37. “Yay!’ he said. ‘Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!” ~ Rick Riordan
38. “I’ve always preferred animals to little girls or boys. I had my first horse – actually it was a Newfoundland pony – when I was three, and I loved riding, without anyone shackling me – riding bareback as fast as I could.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor
39. “Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.” ~ Buffalo Bill

40. “If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies.” ~ Thom Yorke

41. “If you ask me right now, you’ve seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don’t want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.” ~ Carlos Mencia
42. “The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.” ~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
43. “I must say…that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such passion, you injure your own character as much, nay more, than you injure your horse, and remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.” ~ Anna Sewell

44. “A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It’s part of the dog and pony show” ~ John Turturro

45. “How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people, every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.” ~ Chief Seattle
46. “Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
47. “I’ve been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you’re gold when you’re a kid, like green. When you’re a kid everything’s new, dawn. It’s just when you get used to everything that it’s day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold. Keep that way, it’s a good way to be.” ~ S. E. Hinton

48. “Zealots are like one track-pony. Don’t get in their way without expecting to get hurt.” ~ Patricia Briggs

49. “Who else would find me at just this moment? First he found me drunk, now he found me cleaning up poo from a barking pony who was about to go into attack mode.” ~ Rachel Cohn
50. “And the seasons they go ’round and ’round And the painted ponies go up and down We’re captive on the carousel of time We can’t return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.” ~ Joni Mitchell
51. “Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven’t thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.” ~ Robert Breault

52. “A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child’s pony ride.” ~ Shana Alexander

53. “I don’t kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it’s nice.” ~ Ed Sheeran
54. “A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a leather sheath with a really really sharp knife inside. That knife can cut anything, and with it you can do anything. You can kill a bear. You can catch fish. You can whittle a piece of wood into a pony. It’s even a toothpick.” ~ Nick Morgan
55. “a local train … moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.” ~ Honor Tracy

56. “Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses.” ~ Dennis Sharp

57. “No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there’s always that terrible moment when he’s opened the very last one. That’s when he expects you to say, ‘Oh yes, I almost forgot,’ and take him out and show him the pony.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
58. “You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they’re nasty. They’re egocentric. They don’t have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It’s just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony.” ~ Frederick Lenz
59. “It’s the digital era. What makes it exciting is that it’s both the Golden Age of television and the Wild West of television. Something is happening now that’s unprecedented, and we know that we’re a part of it. What could be more exciting or better than that? You can’t lose because you’re on the pony and you’re staking the claim.” ~ Kate Mulgrew
60. “I was posing as a 9-year-old girl who was a blue-ribbon prizewinner; she rode on a Shetland pony, the small horse that was the appropriate size for her.” ~ Cynthia Nixon

61. “It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.” ~ Navjot Singh Sidhu

62. “Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free? If you’ve ever seen a one trick pony then you’ve seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street? If you’ve ever seen a one-legged dog then you’ve seen me.” ~ Bruce Springsteen
63. “I was confident and in good shape when I first came to L.A. but nobody would cast me in any well written roles. People assumed based on my looks I was an asshole and a one trick pony. They never let me improv or do comedy. It wasn’t until I built a shlubby exterior, which stood in stark contrast to my inner confidence that people gave me room to play.” ~ Chris Pratt
64. “When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers’ market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.” ~ David Schwimmer
65. “God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes to support a larger military at a time when, we are told over and over, the country is in the middle of a war on terror. Millionaires can’t be asked to sacrifice even just a little bit. No, they deserve to have their taxes cut while others fight and die.” ~ E. J. Dionne

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