Indian Proverb Quotes

If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile.

A smile you sent, will always return.

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved.

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.

You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment.

Anger ends in cruelty.

Great anger is more destructive than the sword.

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.

Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man by gentleness; And overcome the evil man by goodness.

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults.

You can never enter the same river twice.

To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.

Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.

When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.

Even a cat is a liion in her own lair.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.