87 Tiger Quotes And Famous Sayings About Tigers

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

"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

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

"Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside."
- John F. Kennedy

"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

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

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

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

"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 substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
- Jorge Luis Borges

"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

"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

"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

"The shadows of twilight grow, and the tiger’s ancient fierceness in my veins begins to flow."
- William Wetmore Story

"Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood."
- William Shakespeare

"I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength."
- Bikram Choudhury

"Most predatory animals, if you give them an inch they just go with it. Any animal - a tiger, a shark, anything - you can't act like something that is afraid of it and that's where all their predatory instincts come in."
- Chris Pontius

"These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. 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

"The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning."
- John Vaillant

"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

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

"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 have a lion, tiger, liger, which is 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 feline."
- Tippi Hedren

"The Tiger in many countries, particularly India, represents the apex of the animal pyramid and the protection of their habitat should be a worldwide priority."
- Dr. Karan Singh

"As humans, we are fortunate to fight to secure so many rights: men's rights, women's rights, freedom of speech. But animals like tigers are losing their right to live. It is time we all support their most fundamental right - the right to exist!"
- Gyalwa Dokhampa

"Doubling tigers is about tigers, about the whole of nature - and it's also about us"
- Marco Lambertini

"We must protect tigers from extinction. Our planet's future depends on it."
- Michelle Yeoh

"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

"I've often felt that the Indian tiger has not been unleashed."
- Ratan Tata

"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

"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

"Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal."
- Will Cuppy

"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

"Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth."
- Kalki Krishnamurthy

"The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency – half tiger, half poet."
- Yehudi Menuhin

"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

"Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them."
- Bill Waterson

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

"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

"Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mom' mode. I say what comes into my head."
- Amy Chua

"My mum and dad were a little like tiger parents. I hate that, but at the same time, I am a little bit proud."
- Takashi Murakami

"I'm not really a helicopter dad or tiger dad per se. If anything, I try to not do that, but I get anxious while I'm trying to be relaxed about raising my kids."
- Ken Jeong

"I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"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

"Don't be a tiger's head with a snake's tail."
- Chinese Proverb

"There is no off switch on a tiger."
- German Proverb

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

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

"Tiger father begets tiger son"
- Chinese Proverb

"If you do not enter the tiger's den, how can you get his cub?"
- Chinese proverb

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

"Sit atop the mountain and watch the tigers fight."
- Chinese Proverb

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

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

"Many people together won’t fear a tiger, and many dogs together won’t fear a wolf."
- John S. Rohsenow

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

"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

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

"Everyone needs a dog to adore him, and a tiger to bring him back to reality."
- Anonymous

"A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast."
- Arthur Golden

"In waking a tiger, use a long stick."
- Mao Zedong

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

"When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die."
- Master Funakoshi

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

"Life goes on and you don't touch tigers."
- Yann Martel

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

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

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

"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."
- Confucius

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

"God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb."
- John Updike

"The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition."
- Navjot Singh Sidhu

"There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger."
- V. K. Krishna Menon