Cherish youth, but trust old age.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
You already possess everything necessary to become great.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are going to fall into the river.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Listening, Learning
When a favor is shown to a white man, he feels it in his head and the tongue speaks out; when a kindness is shown to an Indian, he feels it in his heart and the heart has no tongue.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
What the people believe is true.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Never criticize a man until you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Criticism, Critics
Man’s law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Our first teacher is our own heart.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
In age, talk; in childhood, tears.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
The river is my brother for it carries my canoe.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Brothers
Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
A danger foreseen is half-avoided.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Wealth, Foresight, Money
One rain does not make a crop.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Work hard, keep the ceremonies, live peaceably, and unite your hearts.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Wilderness
The way of the troublemaker is thorny.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Every animal knows more than you do.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Knowledge, Wildlife, Proverbial Wisdom, Proverbs
Talk to your children while they are eating;
what you say will stay even after you are gone.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
It is easy to be brave from a distance.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
A starving man will eat with the wolf.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Man has responsibility, not power.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Responsibility, Proverbial Wisdom
The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Never sit while your seniors stand.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Touching the earth equates to having harmony with nature.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Nature
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Walk beside me; that we may be as one.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
No answer is also an answer.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Decisions, Proverbial Wisdom