Native American Indian Inspirational Quotes

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

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 age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.

We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now… but it will grow again… like the trees.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, “The one I feed the most.”

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.