Life Changing Native American Proverbs and Quotes

Native American Proverbs and Quotes

Our first teacher is our own heart.
If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the children of the Earth.
We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth.
Man belongs to Earth. Earth does not belong to man.
To touch the Earth is to have harmony with nature.
Remember that your children are not your own but are lent to you by the Creator.
A people without history is like the wind over buffalo grass.
The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.
Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
With all things and in all things we are relatives.
Life is not separate from death, it only looks that way.
There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnake’s tail.
When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
If you find a person keeps looking at you, it could mean they are thinking of you.
Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.
Day and night cannot dwell together.
Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated I will not be ashamed.
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
Not every sweet root gives birth to sweet grass.
Listen or your tongue will make you deaf.
Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.
It is less of a problem to be poor than to be dishonest.
All who have died are equal.
One rain does not make a crop.
Cherish youth but trust old age.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Sharing and giving are the ways of God.
Don’t be afraid to cry, it will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
All dreams spin out from the same web.
The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
In age talk, in childhood tears.