98+ Best Tiger Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Tiger is a large wild animal of the cat family with yellowish-orange fur with black lines that lives in parts of Asia. Profoundly inspirational tiger quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.

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Famous Tiger Quotes

If you rile a tiger, he’s going to show his claws. Rob James Collier

I’ve often felt that the Indian tiger has not been unleashed. Ratan Tata

The tiger is humbled by memories of prey. Steven Erikson

There is nothing like the thrill of walking through the jungle looking for a tiger and knowing they could be watching you already. Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

There is no off switch on a tiger. German Proverb

The tiger’s world is not only amoral but peculiarly consequence free, and this the atavistic certainty that there is nothing more lethal than itself is the apex predator’s greatest weakness. John Vaillant

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast. Arthur Golden

The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once. John Vaillant

A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts. Wole Soyinka

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don’t be a tiger’s head with a snake’s tail. Chinese Proverb

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. Henry David Thoreau

I like to be a tiger roaming the jungle or an eagle soaring the skies. Sol Campbell

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last. Maureen Dowd

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat. Bill Squires

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. Konrad Adenauer

I’ve often felt that the Indian tiger has not been unleashed. Ratan Tata

If you rile a tiger, he’s going to show his claws. Rob James Collier

There is nothing like the thrill of walking through the jungle looking for a tiger and knowing they could be watching you already. Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home. Sylvia Browne

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tiger tracks follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger unless the tiger arrives at you first. John Vaillant

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. Henry David Thoreau

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. T. S. Eliot

If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. Peter Benchley

The tiger is humbled by memories of prey. Steven Erikson

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. Konrad Adenauer

Life goes on and you don’t touch tigers. Yann Martel

One may ride upon a tiger’s back but it is fatal to dismount. Ernest Bramah

Tigers and women have something in common, it is their disposition; they must be treated majestically. Henrietta Newton Martin

When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die. Gichin Funakoshi

If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. Peter Benchley

A tiger keeps no friends. It’s too dangerous. Aravind Adiga

If tigers could write books, they would say, the man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal because he does not allow him to catch him easily. Swami Vivekananda

The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once. John Vaillant

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit. Amy Tan

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers. John Gardner

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat. Bill Squires

If your mind becomes calm, you can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, you will surely succeed. Mencius

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger. Jorge Luis Borges

Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as sheep. Madonna

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast. Arthur Golden

The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. Sherrilyn Kenyon

Unless you enter the tiger’s lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger’s cubs. Sun Tzu

Tiger watches and hunts; whereas, hyenas wait and wait, for their time, to reach rubbish left by the tiger; similarly, the fools wait, not the wise ones. Ehsan Sehgal

We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around the humans embodied certain animal traits. Yann Martel

I feel like a tiger right now. There’s nothing impossible if you get up and work for it. Michael Flatley

One may ride upon a tiger’s back but it is fatal to dismount. Ernest Bramah

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same. Shunryu Suzuki

You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes. Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man’s good name is as precious to him as its skin is to a tiger. Japanese Proverb

Nothing exists now but the tiger, filling his field of vision like a bad accident, like the end of the world a pair of blazing yellow lanterns over a temple door framed with ivory columns. John Vaillant

To say a tiger is an outside animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside. John Vaillant

Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I’m not a slacker. Britta Phillips

We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms. Ruby Dee

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers. John Gardner

Life goes on and you don’t touch tigers. Yann Martel

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained not shown yet always ready. Charles Dickens

Life is a tiger you have to grab by the tail, and if you don’t know the nature of the beast it will eat you up. Stephen King

If your mind becomes calm, you can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, you will surely succeed. Mencius

The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. Arnold J. Toynbee

I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars. Karel Appel

The tiger’s world, by contrast, is not only amoral but peculiarly consequence free, and this the atavistic certainty that there is nothing more lethal than itself is the apex predator’s greatest weakness. John Vaillant

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival. Bruno Latour

A tiger never returns to his prey he did not finish off. Chinese Proverb

A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts. Wole Soyinka

If tigers could write books, they would say, the man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal because he does not allow him to catch him easily. Swami Vivekananda

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it a sport. When a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. George Bernard Shaw

A tiger never loses sleep over the opinion of sheep. Ziad K. Abdelnour

Tiger watches and hunts; whereas, hyenas wait and wait, for their time, to reach rubbish left by the tiger; similarly, the fools wait, not the wise ones. Ehsan Segal

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it a sport. When a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. George Bernard Shaw

A tiger never loses sleep over the opinion of sheep. Ziad K. Abdelnour

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch. Tug McGraw

It is far better to live like a tiger for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years. Benito Mussolini

Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings. Indian proverb

A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger. Yamamoto Tsunetomo

If you want to kick the tiger in his back you’d better have a plan for dealing with his teeth. Tom Clancy

When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die. Gichin Funakoshi

The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. John Vaillant

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep. Madonna

Just like a kitten that thinks it’s a tiger. Stephenie Meyer

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. William Blake

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian. Heywood Broun

Life is a tiger you have to grab by the tail, and if you don’t know the nature of the beast it will eat you up. Stephen King

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger. Jack Ma

No one can walk beneath palm trees with impunity, and ideas are sure to change in a land where tigers are at home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed. Harry S. Truman

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers. Angela Carter

If a tiger can poach on another’s territory, it probably will, and so, of course, will we. A key difference, however, is that tigers only take what they need. John Vaillant

There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tigers, except when wounded or when man eaters, are on the whole very good tempered. Jim Corbett

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger. Jack Ma

The one certainty in tiger tracks is follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first. John Vaillant

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed. Harry S. Truman

A tiger can smile, a snake will say it loves you. Lies make us evil. Chuck Palahniuk

If you’re losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one. Max Gunther