100+ (BEST) Elephant Quotes, Love For Animals

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These Quotes are a collection of quotes pulled from television shows, movies, and the like. The goal is to use these quotes to inspire writers and artists.

Did you know that elephants are not afraid of mice? Or that they don’t have tongues? Here are some interesting elephant facts.

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Elephant Quotes

Elephant quotes are short, generally funny, often smart, and at times absurd statements that use elephants to great advantage.

Elephant quotes are packed with wisdom drawn from the depths of life, love, and especially wisdom about elephants.

  • Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
  • You are you. Be different. Live free.
  • An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
  • “Only elephants should own ivory.” 
Elephant Quotes
Elephant Quotes
  • I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I’ve ever met.” 
  • Elephants are magnificient creatures.
  • Elephants love reunions. They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild, boisterous joy. There’s bellowing and trumpeting, ear flapping and rubbing. Trunks entwine.

You don’t shoot elephants, you ride them–you might as well shoot your charger.

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  • I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
  • Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.
  • “Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant ― the only harmless great thing.”
Elephant Quotes
Elephant Quotes
  • If elephants didn’t exist, you couldn’t invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense. Lyall Watson
  • She owned the road as an elephant owns the veldt and like a big blue elephant moved with massive grace and dignity.
  • When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.” 

The threat of extinction is more real than many realize. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.

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  • They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.
  • No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant. Thomas Schmidt
  • I hate to witness animals in captivity – or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it’s a loss of what they are.
  • She owned the road as an elephant owns the veldt and like a big blue elephant moved with massive grace and dignity.

Strong Elephant Quotes

Strong elephant quotes are some of the best quotes about elephants.

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  • The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate. David Herbert Lawrence
  • A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
  • We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.”
  • An elephant is not affected by sunshine or rain.
Strong Elephant Quotes
Strong Elephant Quotes
  • Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn’t have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.
  • Elephants can sense danger. They’re able to detect an approaching tsunami or earthquake before it hits. Unfortunately, Jack did not have this talent. The day his life was turned completely upside down, he was caught unaware.
  • If there every comes a day, when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere.

  • God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.”
  • Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
  • Elephants don’t know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!
  • The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? David Attenborough

Related-Strength Quotes»


  • As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
  • “They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.”
  • Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness.
  • I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.
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  • Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy.
Strong Elephant Quotes
Strong Elephant Quotes
  • We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. Graydon Carter
  • Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
  • There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.
  • I’ve known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.
  • Q: How do you tell when there’s an elephant in the pit?
    A: Peanut shells on the floor.

Life Elephant Quotes

Life is for living for each one of us. But we wait to live our lives till we retire. So, we contain our energy for this magical moment when we can finally do what we want.

  • And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. You’ll start happening too.
  • Elephants love reunions. They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild, boisterous joy. There’s bellowing and trumpeting, ear flapping and rubbing. Trunks entwine.
  • “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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  • It’s estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it’s a distressing figure.
  • What’s the difference between a tweaker and an elephant?
    A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.
  • Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.
Life Elephant Quotes
Life Elephant Quotes
  • Th’ unwieldy elephant, to make them mirth, us’d all his might, and wreathed His lithe proboscis. John Milton
  • Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
  • Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.
  • The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we’re going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

Related-Life is Hard Quotes»


  • All good things are wild and free.
  • He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.
  • I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!” 
  • Our elephants are under siege because of an illegal international market that has driven ivory prices in the region up significantly. I call upon the international commun ity to join us in this fight.
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  • It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.
  • A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. Jackie Kennedy
  • Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth.
Life Elephant Quotes
Life Elephant Quotes
  • Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.
  • If elephants didn’t exist, you couldn’t invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.” 
  • We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.
  • Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
  • And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze; About a star of deathless and painless peace; But no astronomer can find where it is.”

Save Elephant Quotes

The purpose of Save Elephant Quotes is to share with you all kinds of quotes and messages with pictures and messages.

  • Save the elephants, and then you save the forest – and then you save yourself.
  • An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre known as a qartal and covered with chain mail, while the rest of its body is protected by sheets of bark and iron, surrounded by 500 men to defend it and protect it to the rear, can fight against 6000 men on horseback.
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  • It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
  • When you have got an Elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
  • Elephants don’t know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!” 
  • We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
  • Dear people with no soul, stop shooting elephants.
Save Elephant Quotes
Save Elephant Quotes
  • Mkhaya’s herd is a good-sized group – sixteen in all, counting the calves – and even though they are the largest land mammals on earth, they are not always easy to find. Elephants, it runs out, are surprisingly stealthy.
  • Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. Pierre Trudeau
  • The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate.

Related-Nature Quotes»


  • I’m not much for cats. I’m terrified of mice. I’ve worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.” 
  • You can look at your dog and see that it’s thinking and has strong feelings. And if it does, so do wolves. And if wolves do, so do elephants. People aren’t the only beings that think and feel.
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  • Umysł człowieka i słonia kształtował się, gdy poruszaliśmy się po takim samym krajobrazie, radząc sobie z tymi samymi wyzwaniami, mierząc długość dni w oparciu o wysokość tego samego słońca, a nocami nasłuchując odgłosów tych samych niebezpieczeństw. Jesteśmy zsynchronizowani, bo zasadniczo mamy podobne pochodzenie.
  • Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it. Buddha
  • Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
  • The elephant can survive only if forests survive.”
  • “People don’t realize how amazing elephants are.
Save Elephant Quotes
Save Elephant Quotes
  • I don’t know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
  • Elephants operate on a steadfast principle that all other lifeforms must give way to them, and as far as they were concerned, foreign tourists at a sit down dinner around a swimming pool were no different than a troop of baboons at a swimming hole.
  • Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. Samuel Richardson
  • The elephant has just one basic gait: an ambling walk; elephants cannot run or jump like other animals.
  • I don’t know how many lions and leopards I’ve shot. I’ve shot two elephants, which was enough – never again. It’s a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It’s like shooting an old man.”

Elephant Quotes For Instagram

Quotes and sayings can be really fun and can add a touch of humour to any social network, so why not use elephant quotes on Instagram!

  • Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.
  • Without being an elephant sycophant, it is relevant to note that an infant elephant is a lieutenant giant.
  • Only elephants should own ivory. Yao Ming
  • So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.
  • We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
  • People don’t realize how amazing elephants are.
  • The elephant’s love for him was a love I have never known
Elephant Quotes For Instagram
Elephant Quotes For Instagram
  • In the conflict between the largest animals and the biggest animals in animal kingdom, few humans but almost all elephants are most likely to die soon!
  • God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant. Max Lucado
  • When we are hungry, elephants are food. When we are full, elephants are beautiful.

Related-Goodness Quotes»


  • “I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I’m just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it’s going to be my friend.”
  • The question of one versus two species of African elephants isn’t about settling an arcane DNA argument; it’s about life or death for these majestic, extraordinary creatures.
  • And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. You’ll start happening too.
  • It was an exceedingly odd thing to see an elephant in a spacesuit.
  • The elephant does not bite, it is that trunk one fears.
Elephant Quotes For Instagram
Elephant Quotes For Instagram
  • Who rides on a tiger can never dismount; asleep on an elephant, that is repose.
  • The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.
  • He taught him to wag his trunk like a tail. Then Arnold painted the most beautiful cat’s face on the elephant.
  • Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it. Buddha
  • Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.

Final Words

These elephant quotes are inspirational, motivational, life changing and will provide you with words to live by!

They come from famous people throughout history and although the words are powerful the meaning behind them is even more so.

We see it as our purpose to share the most amazing elephant quotes that motivate and inspire us.

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