43 Leopard Quotes & Inspirational Leopard Sayings (2025)

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
- Bai Ling

What does the leopard teach us? Not to be intimidated by animals that outweigh him. To be fearless and daring.
- J.D. Jacobs Changing

When I was chased by a striped leopard in dense camouflage of the jungle, there was an overwhelming craving to clamber up the tree; and hide in the myriad of branches.
- Nikhil Parekh

I must say the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally, and I will speak of his extreme beauty as compensation for my ingratitude.
- Mary Kingsley

I really think, taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.
- Mary Kingsley

Leopards, that is ordinary forest leopards, do not like rain and invariably seek shelter, but the man eater was not an ordinary leopard, and there was no knowing what his likes or dislikes were, or what he might or might not do.
- Jim Corbett

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.
- Tippi Hedren

Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?
- Peter Matthiessen

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
- Hemingway Ernest

Snow Leopards are the ambassadors of Asia's high mountains. Conserving these endangered animals and their habitats means managing ecosystems sustainable, adapting to the impacts of climate change and maintaining water security for over a quarter of the world's people.
- Carlos Drews

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
- Jack Hanna

The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.
- Paul Nicklen

Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water.
- Lewis Gordon Pugh

The leopard does not change his spots.
- William Shakespeare

Eye easily deceived. Same leopard can hide behind different spots.
- Lester Ziffren

A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll always be what he was born: a wild animal.
- George Lincoln Rockwell

Oh a leopard can't change his spots, And oil and water can't mix, But I have recently heard an old dog learned new tricks.
- John Rox

I don't have to be logical. I'm a leopard. We're considered wild animals, you know.
- Amy Neftzger

In the third month, the sun rising, the Boar and the Leopard on the field of Mars to fight; The tired Leopard raises its eye to the heavens, sees an eagle playing around the sun.
- Nostradamus

I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.
- D. H. Lawrence

Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.
- Mike Bond

The Snow Leopard's Tale is a haunting, beautifully written, and thought-provoking tale, as all great parables are.
- Ted Kerasote

The leopard is a cruel lover. His tenderness breaks the gazelle's heart.
- Aleksandr Voinov

The Snow Leopard’s Tale is a mystical pilgrimage into that wild country where animal passion and the human heart begin to walk the very same trail. Whether one has been in the business of adventuring, as Thomas McIntyre has, or has enjoyed such adventures from the safety of one’s armchair, The Snow Leopard’s Tale is a haunting, beautifully written, and thought-provoking tale, as all great parables are.
- Ted Kerasote

The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head.
- Ellen DeGeneres

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.
- Holly Black

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
- Hunter S. Thompson

Lions make leopards tame.
- William Shakespeare

As I always say, leopard print is a neutral.
- Leandra Medine

When you do a cheesy leopard print, it can turn out so wrong.
- Kim Kardashian

I love a wild animal print. Not just a leopard print - I'm talking about a tiger or zebra print, too.
- Tan France

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
- Jackie Collins

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
- Lily Tomlin

Leopard coats are fantastic. But on the leopard.
- Amanda Blake

Clothing was no problem at all. Everybody wore leopard skins... Everybody except the leopards.
- Heck Allen