No matter what your goal is, these tiger quotes will help you stay focused and give you the determination to work hard and succeed in life.
So, if you need that little push to get you started or just curious about tigers, then this collection might just be the perfect fit.
The tiger is part of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs. And because of its prowess and ferociousness, it’s been dubbed to be the spirit animal that symbolizes courage, personal strength, and will power.
Get to know more about the tiger through the list below.
And don’t forget to check out these snake quotes.
Best Tiger Quotes
1. “The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.” – John Vaillant
2. “The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.” – Jack Hanna
3. “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
4. “I’ve often felt that the Indian tiger has not been unleashed.” – Ratan Tata
5. “No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
6. “It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.” – Henry David Thoreau
7. “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
8. “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 Dawd
9. “Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” – John F. Kennedy
Noteworthy Tiger Quotes
10. “If you rile a tiger, he’s going to show his claws.” – Rob James-Collier
11. “An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.” – Konrad Adenauer
12. “Tiger tracks—follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger unless the tiger arrives at you first.” – John Vaillant
13. “If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance.” – Peter Benchley
14. “To say a tiger is an ‘outside’ animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.” – John Vaillant
15. “Unless you enter the tiger’s lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger’s cubs.” – Sun Tzu
16. “Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.” – Amy Tan
17. “An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.” – Confucius
18. “When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die.” – Gichin Funakoshi
19. “Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.” – Heywood Broun
20. “Tigers, except when wounded or when man-eaters, are on the whole very good-tempered.” – Jim Corbett
21. “Most cats don’t like water, and despite her pretensions of tigerhood, Julie was no different. Yes, tigers have stripes; so do tabbies. If you want to know the difference, try tossing one of each into your swimming pool. Then I would recommend running.” – Seanan McGuire
22. “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
23. “Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!” – L. Frank Baum
24. “The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger—the girl.” – Arunachalam Muruganantham
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Tiger Quotes That Will Make You Believe In Their Majesty
25. “Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the other side to protect us while we are away from home.” – Sylvia Browne
26. “The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.” – T.S. Eliot
27. “Tigers and women have something in common, it is their disposition; they must be treated majestically.” – Henrietta Newton Martin
28. “If tigers could write books, they would say that man was created for them and that man is the most sinful animal because he does not allow him to catch him easily.” – Swami Vivekananda
29. “One may ride upon a tiger’s back but it is fatal to dismount.” – Ernest Bramah
30. “Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank Him for not having given it wings.” – Ethiopian Proverb
31. “Occasionally, a tiger will object to too close an approach to its cubs or to a kill that it is guarding. The objection invariably takes the form of growling, and if this does not prove effective is followed by short rushes accompanied by terrifying roars. If these warnings are disregarded, the blame for any injury inflicted rests entirely with the intruder.” – Jim Corbett
32. “Everything is connected. Protecting the tiger will protect every species of animal and plant that shares its habitat. The trees that scrub pollution from the air and the rivers that supply water to every living thing.” – Katy Yocom
33. “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
34. “I like to be a tiger roaming the jungle or an eagle soaring the skies.” – Sol Campbell
Also read: Eagle Quotes, Owl Quotes
Famous Tiger Quotes
35. “There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master—there must be no mistake about that.” – Ridley Scott
36. “The tiger is a bellwether—one of the thousands of similarly vulnerable species, which are, at once, casualties of our success and symbols of our failure.” – John Vaillant
37. “The tiger is humbled by memories of prey.” – Steve Erickson
38. “The long-run is what puts the tiger in the cat.” – Bill Squires
39. “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
40. “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
41. “God made the cat to give man the pleasure of stroking a tiger.” – John Gardner
42. “Every woman should have four pets in her life—a mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.” – Paris Hilton
43. “I bleed blue. I love being a Tiger and love being back here in Memphis.” – Stephen Gostkowski
44. “Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.” – Nicholas Sparks
Also read: Tiger King Quotes
Tiger Quotes on Life and Strength
45. “Life goes on and you don’t touch tigers.” – Yann Martel
46. “O, tiger’s heart wrapped in a woman’s hide!” – William Shakespeare
47. “Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.” – Jorge Luis Borges
48. “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
49. “Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.” – William Shakespeare
50. “Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.” – John Gardner
51. “Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.” – Madonna
52. “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
53. “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
54. “God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb.” – John Updike
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Tiger Quotes on Their Prowess and Ferociousness
55. “There is no off switch on a tiger.” – German Proverb
56. “The shadows of twilight grow, and the tiger’s ancient fierceness in my veins begins to flow.” – William Wetmore Story
57. “I’ve read that a tiger’s not dangerous. They say the tiger won’t attack, but one thing’s not clear to me. Has he read this, too? Does he know?” – John Vaillant
58. “A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.” – Arthur Golden
59. “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
60. “Even after killing ninety-nine tigers, the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.” – Kalki Krishnamurthy
61. “A tiger can smile, a snake will say it loves you. Lies make us evil.” – Chuck Palahniuk
62. “Great white tiger, your duty is to protect the prince. But how can you do that if they sink the end of a spear into your heart?” – Danielle Raver
63. “When I see the expression ‘as cruel as a tiger’ and ‘as bloodthirsty as a tiger’ in print, I think of a small boy armed with an old muzzle-loading gun.” – Jim Corbett
64. “You don’t see sick animals in the wild. You don’t see lame animals in the wild, and it’s all because of the predator—the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.” – Tippi Hedren
Also read: Leopard Quotes, Animal Quotes
Tiger Quotes to Ponder On
65. “We think of tigers as being ferocious, but to my mind, it was the other way around—the humans embodied certain animal traits.” – Yann Martel
66. “You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
67. “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
68. “The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.” – William Blake
69. “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
70. “It is not a language like Russian or Chinese, but it is a language nonetheless, and it is older than the forest. The crows speak it; the dog speaks it; the tiger speaks it, and so do the men—some more fluently than others.” – John Vaillant
71. “I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that’s what life really is—there’s no concrete path for you to take. It’s always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don’t know.” – Joe Carnahan
72. “When I work, I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.” – Marge Piercy
73. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” – Amelia Earhart
74. “You know, tigers are very unpredictable.” – Suraj Sharma
Also read: Crow Quotes
Meaningful Tiger Quotes
75. “A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile.” – Lytton Strachey
76. “A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.” – Woyle Soyinka
77. “To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.” – Chinese Proverb
78. “Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.” – Bill Waterson
79. “I don’t like sleeping in the dark jungle by myself.” – Colleen Doran
80. “I dream of nights and girls like tigers—claws and teeth on both.” – Elisabeth Hewer
81. “The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.” – Navjot Singh Sidhu
82. “The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim.”– Sherrilyn Kenyon
83. “Tiger father begets tiger son.” – Chinese Proverb
84. “A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and—actually, no it’s just those two things.” – Colleen Houck
85. “A tiger keeps no friends. It’s too dangerous.” – Aravind Adiga
86. “In me, the tiger sniffs the rose.” – Siegfried Sassoon
87. “The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool—these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.” – Chanakya
88. “Many people together won’t fear a tiger, and many dogs together won’t fear a wolf.” – John S. Rohsenow
89. “No bird flies near, no tiger creeps; alone the whirlwind, wild and black, assails the tree of death and sweeps away with death upon its back.” – Alexander Pushkin
Also read: Bird Quotes
Tiger Quotes That Describe Who You Are
90. “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
91. “A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.” – John le Carre
92. “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
93. “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 Bernand Shaw
94. “It is far better to live like a tiger for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.” – Benito Mussolini.
95. “I feel like a tiger right now. There’s nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.” – Michael Flatley
96. “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
97. “I once knew a girl who loved tigers so much, she almost became one herself.” – Téa Obreht
98. “I was a little tiger. I loved skating. You couldn’t get me out of my skates. As many times as I could go to the rink, I was there.” – Tonya Harding
99. “I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.” – George Foreman
100. “Apparently, I used to bite, scratch, and growl at people when I was young, so my parents named me ‘Tiger.’” – Tiger Shroff
101. “But I’m the child of a tiger mom.” – Lisa Joy
102. “I just wasn’t cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I’m more of an Irish Setter Dad.” – P. J. O’Rourke
103. “I definitely have the eye of the tiger. I’ve fought my way to where I am and will continue to do so. I’m a hard worker—I get it from my family. We only know work. Nothing was handed to us. When I believe in something, I go after it. It’s very hard to tell me ‘no.’” – Nicole Scherzinger
104. “I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.” – Bikram Choudhury
Philosophical Quotes About Tigers
105. “A tiger never returns to his prey he did not finish off.” – Chinese Proverb
106. “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
107. “Don’t be a tiger’s head with a snake’s tail.” – Chinese Proverb
108. “A tiger never loses sleep over the opinion of sheep.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
109. “In waking a tiger, use a long stick.” – Mao Zedong
110. “Sit atop the mountain and watch the tigers fight.” – Chinese Proverb
111. “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
112. “He who rides the tiger finds it difficult to dismount.” – Chinese Proverb
113. “Tigers are more beautiful than sheep, but we prefer them behind bars. The typical romantic removes the bars and enjoys the magnificent leaps with which the tiger annihilates the sheep. He exhorts men to imagine themselves as tigers, and when he succeeds the results are not wholly pleasant.” – Bertrand Russel
114. “The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency—half tiger, half poet.” – Yehudi Menuhin
Funny Tiger Quotes
115. “I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.” – Jack Ma
116. “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 İldan
117. “There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.” – V.K. Krishna Menon
118. “Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.” – Harry S. Truman
119. “Just like a kitten that thinks it’s a tiger.” – Stephenie Meyer
120. “Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.” – Tug McGraw
121. “If you want to kick the tiger in his back, you’d better have a plan for dealing with his teeth.” – Tom Clancy
122. “Truly men hate the truth; they’d rather meet a tiger on the road.” – Robinson Jeffers
123. “Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger, you may rest assured he was abnormal.” – Will Cuppy
124. “Tigers go by several different names here, and one of them is Toyota—because during the 1990s, that is what you could buy with one.” – John Vaillant
125. “The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second-story window.” – John Vaillant
126. “Everyone needs a dog to adore him, and a tiger to bring him back to reality.” – Anonymous
127. “If you’re losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.” – Max Gunther
128. “Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.” – Bill Waterson
129. “Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.” – Aylet Waldman
More Quotes About Tigers
130. “In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.” – Téa Obreht
131. “We have a lion, tiger, liger—the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. We’ve got a tremendous number of the exotic felines.” – Tippi Hedren
132. “Panthera tigris and Homo sapiens are actually very much alike, and we are drawn to many of the same things, if for slightly different reasons. Both of us demand large territories; both of us have prodigious appetites for meat; both of us require control over our living space and are prepared to defend it, and both of us have an enormous sense of entitlement to the resources around us.” – John Vaillant
133. “The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger—they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions are not merely driving other species to extinction: we threaten our own survival, too, by destabilising ecosystems and destroying biodiversity.” – Owen Jones
134. “My mom named me Pom because she said it sounded like a combination of Korean words that mean ‘spring’ and ‘tiger.’ So, it’s very unique!” – Pom Klementieff
135. “‘The Tiger And The Snow’ is a beautiful movie. I am in love with this idea.” – Roberto Benigni
136. “I love a wild animal print. Not just a leopard print—I’m talking about a tiger or zebra print, too.” – Tan France
137. “Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there’s a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.” – Amy Chua
138. “Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or ‘tiger family’ stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.” – Eric Liu
139. “Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.” – Winston Churchill
140. “I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.” – Charlie Sheen
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Did These Quotes Make You Want to Gather Your Strength to Finish Your Hunt Toward Your Dreams?
Those who are born in the year of the tiger are lucky. They’re thought to be people who exude strength, charisma, strength, confidence, and competitiveness. The tiger is one of the most remarkable beasts in the wild because of its unique fur and intelligence.
And just like a tiger, we should strive to be as confident and brave as we can be. Let’s be bold, unstoppable, and aggressive when it comes to going for the kill—for our goals, dreams, and aspirations. We hope these qualities of the tiger inspire you to do your best, too, in your everyday life.
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