⭐ Top 80 Most Famous Native American Proverbs ✅✅✅
Channel: Wise Thinkers Quotes
Date: 2022-08-03

⭐ Top 80 Most Famous Native American Proverbs ⭐
✅ These Native American proverbs are filled with sound advice that may be applied to daily life. You may get quotations and wise sayings from many Native American tribes right here.

✅Being Native American denotes membership in one of the ethnic groups that inhabited North and South America prior to the arrival of the Europeans. May these Native American sayings on success motivate you to take initiative and pursue your goals.

ARAPAHO 
When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it. 
Before eating, always take time to thank the food. 
If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come. 

HOPI
The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things. 
Don’t be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
All dreams spin out from the same web.
The one who tells the stories rules the world.
The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
In age, talk; in childhood, tears.

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.
The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. 

CHEYENNE
Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark. 
Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
Our first teacher is our own heart.
If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
A danger foreseen is half-avoided. 

NIITSITAPI
What is life? It the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. 
Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way. 

NAVAJO
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail.
A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer, but a pick ax.

LAKOTA
When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard. 
Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance. 
Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand.
Everything the power does, it does in a circle.

SIOUX
Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.
A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives. 
With all things and in all things, we are relatives.

ABSAROKA AKACROW
You already possess everything necessary to become great.
Man’s law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.

MOHAWK
Remember that your children are not your own, but are lent to you by the Creator.
A good chief gives, he does not take. 

OMAHA
It is easy to be brave from a distance.
Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.
The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry.

APACHE
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
In this world the unseen has power.
It makes no difference as to the name of the God, since love is the real God of all the world.
Listening to a liar is like drinking warm water. 
The good looking boy may be just good in the face.
Even your silence holds a sort of prayer.
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them.

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