These Native American quotes will inspire you to appreciate your life, your community, and the people that you know and love.
Native American nations lived connected with nature and their community for thousands of years.
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Native American quotes and proverbs about community
1. “When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you, it is you who belong to the land.”
― Native American Proverb
2. The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives. – Sioux
3. A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass. – Sioux
4. “Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man. – Sioux”
5. “A danger foreseen is half-avoided. – Cheyenne”
6. If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove. – Cheyenne
7. Our first teacher is our own heart. – Cheyenne
8. Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins. – Cheyenne
9. Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark. – Cheyenne
10. Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. – Cherokee
11. The weakness of the enemy makes our strength. – Cherokee
12. If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come. – Arapaho
13. Before eating, always take time to thank the food. – Arapaho
14. “Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.”
― Native American Proverb
15. A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
16. It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.
17. “When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries, and you rejoice.”
― Native American Proverb
18. Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your Mother and all things as your Brothers and Sisters.
19. “Listen to the wind—it talks.
Listen to the silence—it speaks.
Listen to your heart—it knows.”
― Native American Proverb
20. Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.
21. The soul would have no rainbow if the eye had no tears.
22. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.
23. No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
24. All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
25. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. – Minquass
26. Cherish youth, but trust old age. – Pueblo
27. “Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.”
― Native American Proverb
28. Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way. – Niitsitapi
29. “Only when the last tree has dies, the last river has been poisoned, the last fish has been caught— will we realize we cannot eat money.”
― Native American Proverb
30. We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth. – Shenandoah
31. “The Earth does not belong to man – man belongs to Earth.”
― Native American Proverb
32. Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.
33. Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.
34. “Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf”
― Native American Proverb
35. Not every sweet root gives birth to sweet grass.
36. A good chief gives, he does not take. – Mohawk
37. Take only memories. Leave only footprints.
38. “If you want to know where you’re going, look where your feet are taking you.”
― Native American Proverb
39. To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. – Oglala Sioux
40. “Give me knowledge, so that I may have kindness for all.”
― Native American Proverb
41. You already possess everything necessary to become great. – Absaroka
42. Man belongs to earth, earth does not belong to man. – Chief Seattle
43. In age, talk; in childhood, tears. – Hopi
44. “Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.”
― Native American Proverb
45. The rain falls on the just and the unjust. – Hopi
The one who tells the stories rules the world. – Hopi
46. Sharing and giving are the ways of God. – Sauk
Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant. – Kiowa
47. It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace. – Shenandoah
48. One rain does not make a crop. – Creole
49. With all things and in all things, we are relatives. – Sioux
50. Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. – Niitsitapi
51. The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry. – Omaha
52. All who have died are equal. – Comanche
53. Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart. – Omaha
54. It is less of a problem to be poor than to be dishonest. – Anishinabe
55. It is easy to be brave from a distance. – Omaha
56. You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. – Navajo
57. Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.
58. Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.
59. Not every sweet root gives birth to sweet grass.
60. A good chief gives, he does not take. – Mohawk
61. Take only memories. Leave only footprints.
62. Remember that your children are not your own, but are lent to you by the Creator. – Mohawk
63. We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. – Dakota
64. Man’s law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same. – Absaroka
65. To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. – Oglala Sioux
66. You already possess everything necessary to become great. – Absaroka
67. Man belongs to earth, earth does not belong to man. – Chief Seattle
68. Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand. – Lakota
69. Everything the power does, it does in a circle. – Lakota
70. Man belongs to earth, earth does not belong to man. – Chief Seattle
71. Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance. – Lakota
72. Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something. – Maricopa
73. There is no death, only a change of worlds. – Duwamish
74. When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard. – Lakota
75. Day and night cannot dwell together. – Duwamish
76. A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer, but a pick ax. – Navajo
77. There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail. – Navajo
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