Old Indian Proverbs

Old Indian Proverbs

A collection of the Old Indian Proverbs from around the net and Old Indian Proverbs from my “Old Indian Proverbs” books, I hope you find the Old Indian Proverbs you are looking for.

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“I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“Don’t be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky, I was hostile to the white man, we preferred hunting to a life of idleness on our reservations, at times we did not get enough to eat and we were not allowed to hunt.

All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Soldiers came and destroyed our villages, then Long Hair came they say we massacred him, but he would have done the same to us. Our first impulse was to escape but we were so hemmed in we had to fight”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children, we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our Children”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“If you’re going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us, and the feeling of duty within us”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“What is life? It is 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”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“Our land is everything to us, I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land, we remember that our grandfathers paid for it ….. with their lives”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way, sing your death song, and die like a hero going home”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“These can never be true friends, Hope, dice, prostitute, robber, cheat, goldsmith,  monkey, doctor, distiller.”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“When the white man discovered this country, Indians were running it, no taxes, no debt, women did all the work. White man thought he could improve on a system like this”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right, riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world, we do not want riches, we want peace and love”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“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 money cannot be eaten”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“No man dies for what he knows to be true, men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person, the true nobility is in being superior to your previous self”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“O’ Great spirit, help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence”
-Old Indian Proverbs

“One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences”
-Old Indian Proverbs

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