105 Intense Wolf Quotes To Find Strength, Love and Power

Wolves are simply powerful creates that speak of focus, determination and connection to our physical and spiritual world. As entrepreneurs, we often need to embody all of these traits on a journey that isn’t always sunshine and roses.

It’s a brutal journey and one that will test us mentally, emotionally and physically. Most won’t make it, but with this list of quotes, we can stay focused and strong to get the real work done.

1. Throw me to the wolves & I’ll return leading the pack

Seneca

2. I am not a wolf in sheep’s clothing, I’m a wolf in wolf’s clothing

Ricky Gervais

3. It is much better to walk alone, in the right direction, than to follow the herd, walking in the wrong direction.

Anonymous

4. If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Nikita Khrushchev

5. The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

6. The hardest walk you can make, is the walk you make alone, but that is the walk that makes you the strongest.

Anonymous

7. 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

8. Some people aren’t who they say they are, be cautious of the company you keep, wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Anonymous

9. The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it’s the wolf inside who will tear you apart.

ennifer Donnelly

10. I never lose, either I win, or LEARN.

Anonymous

11. Wolves don’t perform in a circus, and people with a mind of their own, don’t perform in a circus either.

Avijeet Das

12. Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

Earl Derr Biggers

13. Don’t think about the 1 million reasons why it won’t work out, think about the ONE REASON it WILL!

Anonymous

14. If you run from a wolf, you may run into a bear.

Lithuanian

15. Be like a lion and a wolf, then you have a big heart and the power of leadership.

Anonymous

16. When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.

Leon Trotsky

17. Don’t be afraid of being different, be afraid of being the same as everyone else!

Anonymous

18. They say the wolf bestows its happy spirit to help people. Women who obtain this spirit become skilled in creative endeavors and experience a strengthening of the senses. I would like to think there is some truth to this in my own life.

Judi Rideout

19. Don’t lower your expectations to fit into the world, you were born to stand out.

Anonymous

20. The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.

Jacob Grimm

21. She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

Angela Carter

22. It’s OK to be scared, it means you are about to do something really brave.

Anonymous

23. When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game.

German proverb

24. As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

Plato

25. Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

Plautus

26. The tiger and the lion may be more powerful but the wolf does not perform in the circus.

Anonymous

27. Your time is now. Start where you stand, and never back down!

Anonymous

28. We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

Farley Mowat

29. The wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses.

Robert Jordan

30. The wolf’s clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just non-fighting.

Lois Crisler

31. Let go of your fears and chase after your dreams!

ANONYMOUS

32. I think I’m still a lone wolf, internally. And I always will be.

Rob Halford

33. Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness.

Munia Khan

34. Look into my eyes and you will see how bad I want it!

Anonymous

35. History books say that kings and dukes and generals start wars. Don’t believe it. We start them, you and I. Every time we turn away, keep quiet, stay out of it, behave ourselves.

Jennifer Donnelly

36. 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

37. No wolf falters before the bite so strike no hawk wavers before the dive just strike.

Shannon Hale

38. 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

39. 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

40. The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

Proverb

41. Crying wolf may have been the boy’s undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.

Wes Fesler

42. Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.

Munia Khan

43. Wolves are the witches of the animal world.

Katherine Rundell

44. In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

F.T. McKinstry

45. It is my nature to be kind, gentle, and loving… But know this: When it comes to matters of protecting my friend, my family, and my heart. Do not trifle with me. For I am also the most powerful and relentless creature you will ever know.

Anonymous

46. The wolves in the uniform with the license to do that.

Ehsan Sehgal

47. Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone’s guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.

Warren Ellis

48. The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

Elihu Root

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. The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They’re not meant to be aggressors.

Joe Carnahan

51. 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

52. A wolf doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of sheep.

Anonymous

53. Report makes the wolf bigger than he is.

German Proverb

54. Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.

Sue Thoele

55. Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.

Angela Carter

56. Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth.

Rolf Peterson

57. Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

Anonymous

58. 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.

Anonymous

59. It is madness for a sheep to talk of peace with a wolf.

French proverb

60. The wolf is an intelligent and cultural animal. Its behavior is not just imprinted in its genes but is also taught from mothers to pups according to circumstance. It knows that a man with a pitchfork is dangerous, and that a man with a gun is even more so. The wolf was different once and was more active during the day. Its [modern] nocturnal activities are an adaptation against danger. 

Luigi Boitani

61. The black wolf’s curse awakes every time that a full moon points in the middle of the sky.

Pet Torres

62. 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

63. To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct.

O.R. Melling

64. It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

Virgil

65. Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they’re not around other people.

Anonymous

66. Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It’s just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.

Alfred Hitchcock

67. So, she looked upon the wolves, who were dwindling in number, and back at the humans who no longer cared for their own and combined their spirits. She took the loyal, protective, possessive natures of the wolf and took the intelligence, emotions, and love of the human and brought them together. She designed us to be a pack.

Quinn Loftis

68. 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

69. Wolves and people were not natural enemies. The humans’ relationship with other animals established their rivalry with wolves.

Jon T. Coleman

70. Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

Desiderius Erasmus

71. Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.

Bob Ferris

72. Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

Anonymous

73. Tis a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor. 

French Proverb

74. You know, I’m cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn’t. I wish I was raised by wolves.

Carson Daly

75. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William Falph Inge

76. A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.

George R.R. Martin

77. The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

Khalil Gibran

78. A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Lana Turner

79. If the wolf would cease his running, the people would cease their shouting.

German proverb

80. 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

81. There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

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

R.M. Drake

83. A wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousand are devour’d by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

John Gay

84. The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.

J. R. R. Tolkien

85. Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

Barbara Delinsky

86. 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

87. If the wolf had stayed in the wood, there would have been no hue and cry after him. 

German Proverb

88. Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.

German Proverb

89. I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

Bela Lugosi

90. It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Stephen King

91. The gaze of the wolf reaches into our soul.

Barry Lopez

92. The wolves’ prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

Khalil Gibran

93. Crying wolf is a real danger.

David Attenborough

94. Talk of the wolf and you see his tail.

French Proverb

95. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

James Bovard

96. Wolf is the grand teacher. Wolf is the sage, who after many winters upon the sacred path and seeking the ways of wisdom, returns to share new knowledge with the tribe. Wolf is both the radical and the traditional in the same breath. When the Wolf walks by you – you will remember. 

Robert Ghost Wolf

97. We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background.

April Genevieve Tucholke

98. We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

Gerald Hausman

99. Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

B. B. King

100. Wolves were everywhere. In politics, on thrones, in beds. They cut their teeth on history and grew fat on war.

Roshani Chokshi

101. The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

Horace

102. Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Saul Bellow

103. Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.

Barry Eisler

104. When a wolf doesn’t want to do something, they look really cute.

Michelle Paver

105. Wolves don’t hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

John Fowles