100 Wild Wolf Quotes That Will Make You Howl
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If you are a lone wolf and need some inspiration, then we have the perfect list of leading the pack quotes and lone wolf sayings right here!
These quotes about wolves will not only inspire you but will also motivate you to be more than just a lone wolf, but also a pack leader. Check out these lone wolf quotes, wolf pack quotes, wolf sayings and inspiring wolf quotes to help you become a better version of yourself.
This list is full of wolf quotes about love, pack quotes, strong wolf quotes, alpha female wolf quotes, wolf howling quotes, funny wolf quotes, be a wolf quotes, sad wolf quotes and even crying wolf quotes, what more could you want?
If you love these she wolf quotes, alpha wolf quotes and more, you can also check out our [werewolf quotes] and 'Women Who Run With The Wolves' quotes.
Wolf And Lion Quotes
These wolf quotes and sayings, including Native American wolf quotes and wolf proverbs. They will surely inspire you to become a team-player, or simply be like a wolf that little bit more!
If quotes about being a lone wolf are not your thing, then this list of wolf and lion quotes might be just for you. It even features George R. R. Martin's famous line, “A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf”. Enjoy!
1. "A gentleman is simply a patient wolf."
- Lana Turner.
2. “A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.”
― George R. R. Martin.
3. "Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."
- Lord Byron.
4. "The wolf is the arch-type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation."
- Theodore Roosevelt.
5. “An intelligent wolf is better than a foolish lion.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo.
6. "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
- James Bovard.
7. "Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help."
- Criss Jami.
8. "She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them."
- R.M. Drake.
9. "Wolves were everywhere. In politics, on thrones, in beds. They cut their teeth on history and grew fat on war."
- Roshani Chokshi.
10. “The lion may be more powerful but the wolf does not perform in the circus.”
– Unknown*.
11. “The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.”
– J R R Tolkien.
12. “As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.”
– Plato.
13. “The wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always loses.”
– Robert Jordan.
14. "The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it's the wolf inside who will tear you apart."
- Jennifer Donnelly.
15. "Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges."
-Terry Pratchett.
16. “Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.”
― George R. R. Martin
17. "If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."
- Nikita Khrushchev.
18. “What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?”
― Eoin Colfer.
19. “The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”
― Jodi Picoult.
20. "There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."
- George Carlin.
21. "The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger.
22. "Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves."
- Angela Carter.
23. "The wolves in the uniform with the license to do that."
- Ehsan Sehgal.
24. "Throw me to the wolves and I will return, leading the pack."
-Seneca.
25. “The black wolf’s curse awakes every time that a full moon points in the middle of the sky.”
– Pet Torres.
26. “The gaze of the wolf reaches into our soul.”
– Barry Lopez.
27. “Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.”
- Barbara Delinsky.
28. “Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.”
– German Proverb.
29. "Wolves and people were not natural enemies. The humans’ relationship with other animals established their rivalry with wolves."
- Jon T. Coleman.
30. "Throw me to the wolves. I learn faster when I'm around wolves and sharks."
- Baron Davis.
Wolf And Sheep Quotes
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31. "A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."
- Ruth Brown.
32. "I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I’m a wolf in wolf’s clothing."
- Ricky Gervais.
33. "There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood."
- Ted Hughes.
34. “The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves.”
– Bray Wyatt.
35. “Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.”
– Munia Khan.
36. “If you run from a wolf, you may run into a bear.”
– Lithuanian Proverb.
37. “Some people aren't who they say they are, be cautious of the company you keep, a wolf in sheep's clothing.”
– Unknown*.
38. “The black wolf’s curse awakes every time that a full moon points in the middle of the sky.”
― Pet Torres.
39. "As the wolves ran, drawing nearer to their prey."
- James E. Hyler II.
40. "In our society leaving the baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes."
- Al Roker.
41. "It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be."
- Virgil.
42. "A wolf doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of sheep"
- Unknown*.
43. "A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel."
- Lecrae.
44. “It is madness for a sheep to talk of peace with a wolf.”
– French Proverb.
45. “When a wolf doesn’t want to do something, they look really cute.”
– Michelle Paver.
46. “Make yourself a sheep and the wolf will eat you.”
–German Proverb.
47. “Man is to man either a god or a wolf.”
– Desiderius Erasmus.
48. “If the wolf would cease his running, the people would cease their shouting.”
– German Proverb.
49. "The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves."
- Bray Wyatt.
50. "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
- William Inge.
51. "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper."
- Larry Flynt.
52. "Be yourself. If you're not yourself, who are you? But take advice; listen to people. If you're not listening, you're lost. You're a sheep among wolves."
- Craig David.
53. “‘Tis a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor.”
– French Proverb.
54. "It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff."
- Robert Quine.
55. “If the wolf had stayed in the wood there would have been no hue and cry after him.”
– German Proverb.
Women And Wolf Quotes
Many women and wolf quotes can be found in Clarissa Pinkola Estés' book 'Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths And Stories Of The Wild Woman Archetype'. Estés talks about no one can truly tame a wolf, just like no one can tame a woman.
Here we have presented some woman and wolf quotes, and famous wolf quotes just for you.
56. “Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.”
― Nikita Gill.
57. “Don’t waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
58. "We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background.”
– April Genevieve Tucholke.
59. "At its root, creativity is not about success and not about failure. It's not about knowing why, or what, or even who. It's a mystery. And it's a spiritual place to live."
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
60. “Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events, half understood and half remembered...”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
61. "Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful."
- Rashida Jones.
62. "We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."
- Jawaharlal Nehru.
63. "Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings."
- Robin Hobb.
64. "The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
- Francis Bacon.
65. "Go out in the woods, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
66. “The Canis Lupus, both wolf, and man were meant to be a family with one another. We gain strength through our bond with each other.”
– Quinn Loftis.
67. “The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands- all these are the making of something, and that something is the soul. Anytime we feed the soul, it guarantees an increase.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
68. "'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes."
- Hilary Mantel.
69. “The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they’d lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”
– Jodi Picoult.
70. “Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
71. "If you have yet to be called an incorrigible, defiant woman, don’t worry, there is still time.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
72. “We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us, there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
– Anthony Marra.
73. “There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
74. “Women's curiosity was given a negative connotation, whereas men were called investigative. Women were called nosy, whereas men were called inquiring. In reality, the trivialization of women's curiosity so that it seems like nothing more than irksome snooping denies women's insight, hunches, and intuitions.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
75. “That is, to be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
76. “Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
77. “Failure is a greater teacher than success”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
78. “The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
79. “Many of us have lived desert lives: very small on the surface, and enormous under the ground.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
80. “When seeking guidance, don’t ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
81. “Our lack of loyalty and devotion is unloving, our state of separation from the soul is ugly, based on psychological warts, inadequacies, and childhood fancies.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
82. “To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
83. “Wild Woman teaches women when not to act nice about protecting their soulful lives.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
84. “The things that women reclaim are often their own voice, their own values, their imagination, their clairvoyance, their stories, their ancient memories. If we go for the deeper, and the darker, and the less known we will touch the bones.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
85. “A woman must be able to stand in the face of power because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
86. “Even in the best of worlds, the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
87. “We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
88. “I learned about the sacred art of self-decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
89. "To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
90. “To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one’s own luminosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one’s own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
91. “Our secret hunger for being loved is not beautiful. Our disuse and misuse of love are not beautiful.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
92. “Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
93. “The best land to plant and grow something new again is rock bottom. In that sense, hitting rock bottom, although extremely painful, is also the ground to sow new life on.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
94. "If we live as we breathe, taking and releasing, we cannot make mistakes.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
95. "I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack."
- Jodi Picoult.
96. "A woman's creative ability is her most valuable asset, for it gives outwardly and feeds her inwardly at every level: psychic, spiritual, mental, emotive, and economic... As we create, this wild and mysterious being is creating us in return, filling us with love."
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
97. "Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth.”
– Rolf Peterson.
98. "That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.”
– George R. R. Martin.
99. “Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
– Criss Jami.
100. “Although many things are good and nutritious for the soul, most fall into Wild Woman's four basic food groups: time, belonging, passion, and sovereignty. Stock up.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'.
Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for 100 wild wolf quotes, then why not take a look at these 'Teen Wolf' quotes or lion quotes for more?
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