Joseph M. Marshall III Quotes

#1. Learn to bend with the wind.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#2. Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#3. You can think whatever you want, say whatever you want, and do whatever you want, as long as you are willing to face the consequences.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#4. If it is true that strength is the child of effort and pain, then most of us will have the opportunity to learn strength ... Effort is standing up to the storm. Pain comes from enduring the worst the storm can throw at us. But then so does strength.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#5. What you are comes from the blood of those who set you on this journey. That is likewise unchangeable. What you see in the reflecting pool of truth is who you are. You cannot change that, so it is wise not to curse it. The wiser choice is to embrace it and make it your strength.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#6. Accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a strength.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#7. The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#8. Respect is a close relative of tolerance, and both go a long way to prevent and alleviate the negative interactions between and among people. Respect was a member of each Lakota household during the free-roaming buffalo-hunting days on the northern plains.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#9. Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#10. Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#11. Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#12. When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

Joseph M. Marshall III