Sleeping Lion Quotes

#1. It is only through effort that works are accomplished, not through just desires. The prey won't enter into the sleeping lion's mouth of their own accord.

Anonymous

#2. A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

Lawrence Hill

#4. It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

Philip Sidney

#5. Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Friedrich Schiller

#6. I don't snore."
He nodded with a wide grin. "It's a quiet peaceful kind of snoring. Like a small cuddly Tasmanian devil. Kind of cute when sleeping, all claws and teeth when awake."
"You snore worse. At least I don't turn into a lion in my sleep.

Ilona Andrews

#7. We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that ... it's a lion.

Seyoung Kim

#8. I have a self to recover, a queen. Is she dead, is she sleeping? Where has she been, with her lion-red body, her wings of glass?

Sylvia Plath