Story Quotes - Page 2

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

In a democracy government is the God.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.