Best Lions Quotes

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we’re so weird.

Men, specifically in the West, have no rights of passage, no way to know when they become a man. Everywhere else in the world you gotta kill a lion or stab a shark, or go on some journey, and you come back and you’re a man. But here in the West, we’re really kind of clueless as to what makes us a man.

I’ve got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

Many of us are hunting mice – while lions devour the land.

So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country…with hope and delight.

I’m like a lion – I roar. If someone betrays me, I won’t be a victim. I don’t sulk, I get angry.
I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.

The symbol of the lion, throughout history, throughout cultures, is one pure, radiant symbol and that is leadership, kingship

Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

…if you fall into a lion’s pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it’s hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it’s bloodthirsty, but because you’ve invaded it’s territory.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.

The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba’s father gets trampled.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands…

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.

Where the lion’s skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox’s.

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.