From The Lion King To Lion In Winter – The Best Lion Quotes

We always protect our heads, our faces,’ he commented as he followed a half-step behind and to her left. It’s pure instinct; to shield the eyes. The irony is that the blind have no eyes to protect, and suffer most of their injuries on their legs. But instinct can be blind, too.

I have the heart of lion.

I’m a lion. I’m not tough, but I am strong. I’m definitely not a wallflower.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.

The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

Roan looked down at the pathetic little fur ball with a pink ribbon clipped to the top of its head and growled at it. It came from deep in his throat, and while it was unintentional, it wasn’t precisely a human noise. He could feel it in his throat, vibrating his vocal chords, and the dog’s ears rotated briefly in as much alarm as a dog could express, and then it whimpered and cringed, pissing on the sidewalk in submission.
the woman took a couple steps backward, eyes wide and horrified, and dragged her dog past them as she hurried off, the pom more than happy to leave.
paris looked at him, an eyebrow raised and the corner of his mouth quirked up in a half smile. “i love it when you get defensive.”
“i’m the king of the jungle.i’m not taking any sh*t from a living dust mop.

How can you fall in love at first sight when you can’t even see?.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

When a lion doesn’t get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner.

The more doors you open to the mysteries, or sacred knowledge, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong confidence and a bold spirit that makes you a lion of god. The creator does not want you to suffer, yet we are being conditioned by society to accept suffering, weak and passive dispositions under the belief that such conditions are favorable by god. Weakness is not a virtue praised by god. How could he desire for you to be weak if he tells us to stand by our conscience? doing so requires strength. However, there is a difference between arrogance when inflating your ego, and confidence when one truly gets closer to god. One feels large, while the other feels small. Why? because a man of wisdom understands that he is just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms, and that in the end — we are all connected. And did you not know that the smaller a creature is, the bolder its spirit?.

This is the land of narnia,’ said the faun, ‘where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of cair paravel on the eastern sea.

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?.

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.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

The vampire leaned forward, tapping a scimitar claw. “is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?”
“yep.”
“is he carrying a moon on his pitchfork?”
“no, it’s a pie.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.

Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were aslan and the witch herself. It was the oddest thing to see those two faces – the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the witch looked aslan exactly in his eyes; mrs beaver particularly noticed this.

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker.

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle. A lion controls his jungle.

He’ll be coming and going” he had said. “one day you’ll see him and another you won’t. He doesn’t like being tied down–and of course he has other countries to attend to. It’s quite all right. He’ll often drop in. Only you mustn’t press him. He’s wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

You know the lion is dangerous when it is quiet, stalking, sneaking up on its prey. Only after it has ambushed and killed its prey does the lion roar. It wants to intimidate the jackals.

A lion is called a ‘king of beasts’ obviously for a reason.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

The lion will lay down with the lamb, but every morning they’ll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Commissioner harris at the far end stared along the mad pathway. This was his first child and it had already become a murderer.

These are the animals that are the reason why you don’t see old animals in the wild. You don’t see sick animals in the wild. You don’t see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Oh lion in a peculiar guise,
sharp roman road to paradise,
come eat me up, i’ll pay thy toll
with all my flesh, and keep my soul.

If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

Courage~ what makes the flag on the mast to wave? what makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? what makes the muskrat guard his musk? courage! what makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? courage! what makes the dawn come up like thunder? courage! what makes the hottentot so hot? what puts the “ape” in apricot?~cowardly lion from the wizard of oz.

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he’s never mentioned it – you just find out. That’s a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger – the girl.

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless!

Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

The lion is the defender of faith, strength, valor, fortitude, and kingliness.

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 one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash.

A lion’s work hours are only when he’s hungry; once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it’s scary. And the bear because it’s intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

A dog might feel as majestic as a lion, might bark as loud as a roar, might have a heart as mighty and brave as a lion’s heart,
but at the end of the day, a dog is a dog and a lion is a lion.

‘The Lion’ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‘Let’s try to make a story about it.’

Gone! and you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect truth.

Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.

If the lion didn’t bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn’t be exciting.

Your heart has a powerful little antenna and its vibrations can be felt throughout the universe.

When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true.

It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.

I will not join the rat race because i’m not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because i’m not a bat. The only race i’ll take part in is for humans being humane. It’s called the human race, and sadly it’s got the least participants.

The lion is an emblem of the dream of absolute power — and, as a wild rather than a domestic animal, he belongs to a world outside the realm of society and culture.

It’s not about being thin, it’s about being healthy. And when you are a child you like to eat all these unhealthy things like chocolate and sweets. Oh my God. I love strawberries dipped in chocolate and Lion bars and Toffee Crisps – and as you grow up, you have to learn that those things are only good in moderation or you will become very fat.

My panties were still on but he didn’t let that stop him, nosing them out of the way and tonguing my sex, making low, growling noises in his throat like a big cat purring with pleasure while it devoured its prey.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up!

‘A living dog is better than a dead lion.’ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.

The lion is ashamed, it’s true, when he hunts with the fox.

She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them.

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

Aslan: you doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are.

A Lion that hunts for survival in the jungle does not envy the one being fed in a zoo.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Lions don’t have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don’t talk, and those who talk don’t work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

Only a lion can recognize a lion’s roar.

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.

Lions are neither predators nor killers. They just go for hunting like kings; because they are the kings!