Create Yours

Top 15 Luther Standing Bear Quotes (2025 Update)

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.”

1. “The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.”

2. “It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.”

3. “After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.”

4. “The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.”

5. “Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.”

6. “For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.”

7. “We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.”

8. “The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.”

9. “Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.”

10. “Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.”

11. “White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.”

12. “Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. -.”

13. “As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. -.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.”

14. “Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “Now all these virtues mean one thing, and that is bravery. A Sioux boy was taught to be brave always. It was not sufficient to be brave enough to go to war. He must be brave enough to make personal sacrifices and to think little of personal gain. To be brave was the supreme test of a Sioux boy, and this bravery might receive a greater test in times of peace than in times of war.”

15. “Now all these virtues mean one thing, and that is bravery. A Sioux boy was taught to be brave always. It was not sufficient to be brave enough to go to war. He must be brave enough to make personal sacrifices and to think little of personal gain. To be brave was the supreme test of a Sioux boy, and this bravery might receive a greater test in times of peace than in times of war.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “Generosity is a mark of bravery, so all Sioux boys were taught to be generous.”

16. “Generosity is a mark of bravery, so all Sioux boys were taught to be generous.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear Quote: “Never rail at the storms, the furious winds, the biting frosts and snows... Bright days and dark days are both expressions of the great mystery.”

17. “Never rail at the storms, the furious winds, the biting frosts and snows... Bright days and dark days are both expressions of the great mystery.”

— Luther Standing Bear

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 15 Luther Standing Bear Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.