Why do we compare successful people to lions? Lions show some admirable character traits. Lions are powerful, they are brave, and they are admired as a successful species. It is these attributes that make us compare successful, powerful people to lions. These are the lions that provide us with inspirational quotes and show us the way to success. Wild lions are strong, courageous, and willing to cooperate with others to hunt successfully and defend their home. Human lions often show these characteristics in their lives. They have a strength of purpose, the courage of their convictions, and a willingness to adopt tactics that will lead to success.
“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Lions are found in all walks of life. Those who want to inspire us with motivational lion quotes often come from the business world, the world of entertainment, or the political arena. The phrase ‘King of the Jungle’ is usually applied to a wild lion, and to succeed, you would do well to aim to be a king in your particular jungle. To continue the comparison, following the advice and example of the human lions we admire will lead you to the lion’s share of the spoils. That is the meaning of success.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher
All the lion quotes below come from successful, influential people, and they have been drawn from all walks of life. What are the attributes they have in common? What did they do that made them successful? They all began with a dream, a goal, or an aim. They would then measure their success by whether they achieved that aim.
“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” – Will Smith
What qualities do these lions all seem to have? Apart from knowing they have a dream and are desperate to fulfill that dream, they all have self-confidence. Self-belief is the first quality anyone aiming for success needs to have. This translates into an inner strength that brings self-confidence. Combine self-belief with determination and success will follow. The successful lions have banished the fear of failure. Most adopt the attitude that they can learn from failure, so don’t fear it. Some successful entrepreneurs will openly admit that they suffered failures and set-backs during their careers. Enduring them just made them more determined to keep going, and to carry on trying until they achieved the success they wanted. Hard work and eagerness to make every day count feature often in these lion quotes.
“The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra
Another quality found in the lions in our society is the ability to recognize opportunities and take them. When someone is well-versed in their field, they are better placed to take advantage of opportunities. Being an expert in a particular field comes from learning and observation.
“Opportunities don’t come knocking on the door. They present themselves when you knock the f*#king door down.” – Greg Plitt
Successful people are energetic and active. They don’t waste time thinking about taking action; they act. This means they achieve much more in the time they have available. They all hate to waste time. Time is finite, so we cannot replace what we have wasted.
“A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.” – Tony Robbins
Read the following lion quotes carefully. They come from a wide range of successful people and contain much wisdom.
Motivational Lion Quotes
- “If you don’t play to win, don’t play at all.” – Tom Brady
- “Worrying gets you nowhere. if you turn up worrying about how you’re going to perform, you’ve already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.” – Usain Bolt
- “As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.” – Bob Marley
- “Failure is not the outcome – failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.” – Sara Blakely
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Do the thing that your heart is asking you to do regardless of the external circumstances.” – Elliott Hulse
- “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
- “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” – Will Smith
- “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” – T. Harv Eker
- “Your life should be dominated by only one main fear: Not fully optimizing today. That’s the healthiest fear in the world.” – Tai Lopez
- “It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.”
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- “If I was not a dreamer, I would have achieved nothing.” – Clint Eastwood
- “Go forth boldly, and mighty forces will come to your aid” – Unknown
- “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” – Jane Smiley
- “Attack your goals like your life depends on it” – Unknown
- “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “There is no substitute for hard work. Always be humble and hungry.” – Dwayne Johnson
- “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Victor Forbes
- “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan
- “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” – Muhammad Ali
- “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
- “Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.” – Lil Wayne
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“Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.” – Tony Robbins
- “You must lose everything in order to gain anything.” – Brad Pitt
- “It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.” – Jeff Bezos
- “You are the master of your environment. You’ve got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.” – Tyrese Gibson
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.” – Henry Ford
- “Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.” – Kobe Bryant
- “Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” – Lewis Howes
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
- “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”– Stephen Covey
- “Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?” – Friedrich Schiller,
- “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem
- “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
- “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
- “Look back at your life. It’s always the hardest times that made you who you are.” – Casey Neistat
- “Average is a failing formula” – Grant Cardone
- “A lion runs fastest when he is hungry” – Salman Khan
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“If you let society and your peers define you who you are, you’re less for it” – Hugh Hefner
- “There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.” – Terry Pratchett
- “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill
- “Winners win, and losers lose.” – Eric Thomas
- “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
- “For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “You are the master of your environment. You’ve got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.” – Tyrese Gibson
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“Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson
- “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African proverb
- “If tomorrow doesn’t happen, would you still do what you’re about to do today? If that answer is no, you’re alive, but you’re not living.” – Greg Plitt
- “The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.” – Chris Gardner
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“I feel confident because I’m the best player in the world. It’s that simple.” – LeBron James
- “Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” – Sara Blakely
- “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “The world is a jungle. You either fight and dominate or hide and evaporate.” – Unknown
- “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
- “We only get to play this game one time…one life.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
- “Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren Buffett
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
- “It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K Rowling
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“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” – Michelle Obama
- “It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.” – Mark Cuban
- “It’s never too late to realize what you want in your life and it’s never wrong to fight for it.”– Drake
- “Every morning you have 2 choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You’ve got to stay patient, stay in the moment, keep grinding, … You never know what can happen. And it turned out well.” – Tiger Woods
- “Everyone wants to eat but few are willing to hunt” – Unknown
- “Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.” – John Wayne
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“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you’ll have some of the best times of your life.” – Big Sean
- “Success is your duty, obligation, and responsibility” – Grant Cardone
- “When you are great, you attract great! When you are average, you attract average” – Eric Thomas
- “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” – Gerard Way
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“It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.” – Muhammad Ali
- “Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character.” – Les Brown
- “I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.” – Denzel Washington
- “Only you and you alone can change your situation. Don’t blame it on anything or anyone.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
- “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “There is greatness within you!” – Les Brown
- “The devil whispers “You cannot withstand the storm” The warrior replies “I am the storm” – Unknown
- “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. Don’t stop!” – Unknown
- “Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.” – Daymond John
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“One of the things you can always depend on – this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here – whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.” – Morgan Freeman
- “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” – Jack Canfield
- “And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.” – Will Smith
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“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” – Bruce Lee
- “Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.” – Phil Knight
- “What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.” – Meryl Streep
- “I’m just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards” – Gary Vaynerchuk
- “If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.” – John Maxwell
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.” – Jim Rohn
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.” – Tony Robbins
- “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
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“Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.” – Jay-z
