KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Tecumseh Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Tecumseh

Showing 1-10 of 18 Quotes by Tecumseh

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

~Tecumseh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

~Tecumseh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

~Tecumseh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

~Tecumseh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

~Tecumseh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

~Tecumseh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

~Tecumseh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

~Tecumseh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans.

~Tecumseh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

~Tecumseh

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Leader

Born: Unknown

Died: October 5th, 1813

Links

Find Tecumseh on Amazon

Related Authors

Napoleon Bonaparte
Buddha
Jesus Christ
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dalai Lama
Martin Luther
Margaret Thatcher

Popular Authors

W. E. B. Du Bois Erma Bombeck Ellen Degeneres Walt Disney Henry Ford Maria Montessori George Orwell Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1808 - Gerard De Nerval

1813 - Richard Wagner

1844 - Mary Cassatt

1859 - Arthur Conan Doyle

1879 - Alla Nazimova

1907 - Laurence Olivier

1910 - Johnny Olson

1914 - Sun Ra

1914 - Vance Packard

1920 - Helen Andelin

Birthdays on May 22nd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Beauty Cool Courage Diet Environmental Morning Sad Society