It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest.
-American Indian Proverb, Anishinabe

What the people believe is true.
-American Indian Proverb, Anishinabe

Knowledge that is not used is abused.
-American Indian Proverb, Cree

One rain does not make a crop.
-American Indian Proverb, Creole

You already possess everything necessary to become great.
-American Indian Proverb, Crow

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.
-American Indian Proverb, Crow

Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.
-American Indian Proverb, Crow

The only things that need the protection of men are the things of men, not the things of the spirit.
-American Indian Proverb, Crow

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
-American Indian Proverb, Dakota

There is no death, only a change of worlds.
-American Indian Proverb, Duwamish

The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

All dreams spin out from the same web.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

The one who tells the stories rules the world.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

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One finger cannot lift a pebble.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

In death, I am born.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

Truth does not happen, it just is.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

The supreme law of the land is the Great Spirit's law, not man's law.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

No answer is also an answer.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

A people without faith in themselves cannot survive.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

Work hard, keep the ceremonies, live peaceably, and unite your hearts.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

In age, talk; in childhood, tears.
-American Indian Proverb, Hopi

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
-American Indian Proverb, Iowa

The greatest strength is gentleness.
-American Indian Proverb, Iroquois

Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.
-American Indian Proverb, Kiowa

Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand.
-American Indian Proverb, Lakota

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.
-American Indian Proverb, Lakota

When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.
-American Indian Proverb, Lakota

Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosity in the hearts of the young.
-American Indian Proverb, Lakota

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.
-American Indian Proverb, Lumbee

Pray to understand what man has forgotten.
-American Indian Proverb, Lumbee

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.
-American Indian Proverb, Maricopa

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
-American Indian Proverb, Minquass

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
-American Indian Proverb, Minquass

A good chief gives, he does not take.
-American Indian Proverb, Mohawk

A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer, but a pick axe.
-American Indian Proverb, Navajo

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
-American Indian Proverb, Navajo

There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail.
-American Indian Proverb, Navajo

I have been to the end of the earth,

I have been to the end of the waters,

I have been to the end of the sky,

I have been to the end of the mountains,

I have found none that are not my friends.
-American Indian Proverb, Navajo

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, Navajo

Every animal knows more than you do.
-American Indian Proverb, Nez Perce

White men have too many chiefs.
-American Indian Proverb, Nez Perce

Talk to your children while they are eating;

what you say will stay even after you are gone.
-American Indian Proverb, Nez Perce

To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.
-American Indian Proverb, Oglala Sioux

When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps.
-American Indian Proverb, Oklahoma

A starving man will eat with the wolf.
-American Indian Proverb, Oklahoma

The coward shoots with shut eyes.
-American Indian Proverb, Oklahoma

It is easy to be brave from a distance.
-American Indian Proverb, Omaha

Ask questions from you heart and you will be answered from the heart.
-American Indian Proverb, Omaha

The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry.
-American Indian Proverb, Omaha

Respect the gift and the giver.
-American Indian Proverb, Omaha

He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it, is as guilty as the wrongdoers.
-American Indian Proverb, Omaha

What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for.
-American Indian Proverb, Pawnee

Misfortunes do not flourish on one path, they grow everywhere.
-American Indian Proverb, Pawnee

A hungry stomach makes a short prayer.
-American Indian Proverb, Paiute

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
-American Indian Proverb, Pima

Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.
-American Indian Proverb, Plains Indian

Cherish youth, but trust old age.
-American Indian Proverb, Pueblo

Sharing and giving are the ways of God.
-American Indian Proverb, Sauk

We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky.
-American Indian Proverb, Shawnee

Each person is his own judge.
-American Indian Proverb, Shawnee

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
-American Indian Proverb, Shawnee

Show respect for all men, but grovel to none.
-American Indian Proverb, Shawnee

We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth.
-American Indian Proverb, Shenandoah

It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.
-American Indian Proverb, Shenandoah

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, Shoshone

With all things and in all things,we are relatives.
-American Indian Proverb, Sioux

Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.
-American Indian Proverb, Sioux

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
-American Indian Proverb, Sioux

There are many good moccasin tracks along the trail of a straight arrow.
-American Indian Proverb, Sioux

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.
-American Indian Proverb, Sioux

The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.
-American Indian Proverb, Southwest

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
-American Indian Proverb, Southwest

Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are going to fall into the river.
-American Indian Proverb, Tuscarora

Man has responsiblity, not power.
-American Indian Proverb, Tuscarora

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
-American Indian Proverb, Tuscarora

The way of the troublemaker is thorny.
-American Indian Proverb, Umpqua

God gives us each a song.
-American Indian Proverb, Ute

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, Ute

A man must make his own arrows.
-American Indian Proverb, Winnebago

Silence has so much meaning.
-American Indian Proverb, Yurok

After dark all cats are leopards.
-American Indian Proverb, Zuni

Walk tall as the trees,

live strong as the mountains,

be gentle as the spring winds,

keep the warmth of the summer sun

in your heart, and the great spirit

will always be with you.
-American Indian Proverb, unknown tribe

Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.
-American Indian Proverb, Anishinabe

Before eating, always take a little time to thank the food.
-American Indian Proverb, Arapaho

When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
-American Indian Proverb, Arapaho

If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
-American Indian Proverb, Arapaho

Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.
-American Indian Proverb, Arapaho

All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them.
-American Indian Proverb, Arapaho

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
-American Indian Proverb, Arapaho

Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
-American Indian Proverb, Blackfoot

Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.
-American Indian Proverb, Blackfoot

The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.
-American Indian Proverb, Cherokee

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
-American Indian Proverb, Cherokee

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
-American Indian Proverb, Cherokee

Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.
-American Indian Proverb, Cheyenne

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
-American Indian Proverb, Cheyenne

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

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-American Indian Proverb, Cheyenne

A good soldier is a poor scout.
-American Indian Proverb, Cheyenne

Our first teacher is our own heart.
-American Indian Proverb, Cheyenne

Judge not by the eye but by the heart.
-American Indian Proverb, Cheyenne

Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.
-American Indian Proverb, Cheyenne

If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
-American Indian Proverb, Cheyenne

It is good to tell one's heart.
-American Indian Proverb, Chippewa

All who have died are equal.
-American Indian Proverb, Comanche

Treachery darkens the chain of friendship, but truth makes it brighter than ever.
-American Indian Proverb, Conestoga

Never sit while your seniors stand.
-American Indian Proverb, Cree

You cannot eat your cake and have it.
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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
-Isaac Watts

Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.



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Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD'S LOVE!



Mahatma Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves.



Lin Yutang

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. .



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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. .



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A child's hand in yours — what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of power and wisdom.