• "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." Ute
• "A good man does not take what belongs to someone else." Pueblo
• "It's impossible to awaken a man who is pretending to be asleep." Navajo
• "It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest." Anishinabe
• "The rain falls on the just and the unjust." Hopi
• "Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are going to fall into the river." Tuscarora
• "Listening to a liar is like drinking warm water." tribe unknown
• "Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand." Lakota
• "What the people believe is true." Anishinabe
• "There is no death, only a change of worlds." Duwamish
• "Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne
• "It is easy to be brave from a distance." Omaha
• "A brave man dies but once; a coward, many times." Iowa
• "One rain does not make a crop." Creole
• "A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer, but a pick ax." Navajo
• "When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps." Oklahoma
• "A starving man will eat with the wolf." Oklahoma
• "There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail." Navajo
• "All dreams spin out from the same web." Hopi
• "The one who tells the stories rules the world." Hopi
• "The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs." Southwest
• "Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas." Blackfoot
• "We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky." Shawnee
• "Each person is his own judge." Shawnee
• "Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand." tribe unknown
• "Man has responsibility, not power. " Tuscarora
• "Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way." Blackfoot
• "Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf. " tribe unknown
• "If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. " Minquass
• "Every animal knows more than you do." Nez Perce
• "Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself." Pima
• "After dark all cats are leopards." Zuni
• "Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant." Kiowa
• "Sharing and giving are the ways of God." Sauk
• "With all things and in all things, we are relatives." Sioux
• "Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins." Cheyenne
• "Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart." Omaha
• "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." Cherokee
• "Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future." Lumbee
• "Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts." Hopi
• "A danger foreseen is half-avoided." Cheyenne
• "Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man." Sioux
• "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Sioux
• "Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance." Lakota
• "Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you." Hopi
• "The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry." Omaha
• "One finger cannot lift a pebble." Hopi
• "A good soldier is a poor scout." Cheyenne
• "Each bird loves to hear himself sing." Arapaho
• "Our first teacher is our own heart." Cheyenne
• "He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone." Seneca
• "The way of the troublemaker is thorny." Umpqua
• "You already possess everything necessary to become great." Crow
• "Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves." Assiniboine
• "The coward shoots with shut eyes." Oklahoma
• "A man must make his own arrows." Winnebago
• "To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature." Oglala Sioux
• "We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth." Shenandoah
• "All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them." Arapaho
• "If a man is to do something more than human, he must have more than human powers." tribe unknown
• "When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard." Lakota
• "The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things." Hopi
• "God gives us each a song." Ute
• "Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something." Maricopa
• "Cherish youth, but trust old age." Pueblo
• "Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it." Crow
• "In age, talk; in childhood, tears." Hopi
• "A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass." Sioux
• "White men have too many chiefs." Nez Perce
• "In death, I am born." Hopi
• "They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind." Tuscarora
• "All who have died are equal." Comanche
• "A hungry stomach makes a short prayer." Paiute
• "Sing your death song and die like a hero going home." Shawnee
• "It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace." Shenandoah
• "Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed." Plains
• "The weakness of the enemy makes our strength." Cherokee
• "Even a small mouse has anger." tribe unknown
• "There are many good moccasin tracks along the trail of a straight arrow." Sioux
• "Not every sweet root give birth to sweet grass." tribe unknown
• "A good chief gives, he does not take." Mohawk
• "Wakan Tankan Nici Un" Cherokee - "May the Great Spirit walk with you."
• "Yigaquu osaniyu adanvto adadoligi nigohilvi nasquv utloyasdi nihi" Cherokee - "May the Great Spirit's blessings always be with you."
• "Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin" Cherokee - "We are all related."
• "Ea Nigada Qusdi Idadadvhn" Cherokee - "All my relations in creation."
• "Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours." Chief Tecumseh
• "When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear; when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them." Chief Seattle
• "Brother, you say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Why not all agreed, as you can all read the Book?" Sogoyewapha, "Red Jacket" - Seneca
• "Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself." Hopi
• "We who are clay blended by the Master Potter, come from the kiln of Creation in many hues. How can people say one skin is colored, when each has its own coloration? What should it matter that one bowl is dark and the other pale, if each is of good design and serves its purpose well." Polingaysi Qoyawayma, Hopi
• "There is no such thing as 'part Cherokee.' Either you're Cherokee or you're not. It isn't the quantity of Cherokee blood in your veins that is important, but the quality of it...your pride in it. I have seen full-bloods who have virtually no idea of the great legacy entrusted to their care. Yet, I have seen people with as little as 1/500th blood quantum who inspire the spirits of their ancestors because they make being Cherokee a proud part of a their everyday life." Jim Pell, Principal Chief of the North Alabama Cherokee Tribe
• "A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal." Chief Joseph, Nez Perce
• "In our every deliberation we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." From the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy

See also: List of proverbs.