Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Muriel Strode (American Author, Businesswoman)

Muriel Strode-Lieberman (1875–1964) was an American poet who primarily wrote in her pre-marriage name Muriel Strode.

Born in Bernadotte Township, Illinois, to a naturalist and physician, Strode moved to California at age 16. She started working as a stenographer and a typewriter and wrote poetry on the side. She later moved to New York for a career as a writer but returned to California when oil was discovered on land she owned. She then relocated to Arizona when her husband got ill with tuberculosis and lived there until death.

Strode’s poetry and writings got published in The Open Court and other popular periodicals of her day. Her notable works include My Little Book of Prayer (1904,) My Little Book of Life (1912,) A Soul’s Faring (1921,) and At the Roots of Grasses (1923.)

Strode’s famous quotation from the August 1903 edition of The Open Court periodical, “I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail,” is similar to a famous quotation “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” The latter is widely ascribed to the American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, but has not been located in his works.

READ: Works by Muriel Strode

A grand passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
Muriel Strode

Say not that this or that thing came to thwart you; it only came to test you.
Muriel Strode

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Muriel Strode

Each receives but that which is his own returning.
Each hears but that which is the echo of his own call.
Each feels but that which has eaten into his own heart.
Muriel Strode

If the populace marched in file, ’twere my signal to break from the ranks. If a thousand generations did thus and so, ’twere my cue to do otherwise.
Muriel Strode

It is no stigma to wear rags; the disgrace is in continuing to wear them.
Muriel Strode

A man is known by the company he avoids.
Muriel Strode
Topics: Friends and Friendship

The Aeolian must be in your breast, else the winds are in vain.
Muriel Strode

I would travel in all climes that I might return and tell you of the beauty of my own little garden plot. I would explore heaven and hell that I might come back and tell you what a charming place is the earth.
Muriel Strode

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Muriel Strode

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.
Muriel Strode

Infinitely will I trust nature’s instincts and prompting:-, but I will not call my own perversions nature.
Muriel Strode

I longed to build as you had builded, but I knew that your joy lay in the conception of your own design.
I longed to follow where your feet had trod, but I had watched your exhilaration as you felled a new way.
I longed to do that thing you did and be that thing you are, but I knew life’s fulness was yours because you were yourself.
Muriel Strode

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Muriel Strode
Topics: Worry

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, “Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?” The grandfather answered, “The one I feed”.
Muriel Strode
Topics: Pessimism

There is hope for that genius who must overcome poverty, but there is almost none for that one who must overcome wealth.
Muriel Strode

Let my grave be unmarked: I fear not to be forgotten.
Muriel Strode

I am life’s mystery,—and I alone am its solution.
I am the dreamer of dreams,—and I am dreams come true.
I am the supplicant,—and I am the god that answers prayers.
Muriel Strode

Not alone for that which is mine will I rejoice, but for that which has been withheld, which was coveted and longed for but denied, for I am what I am for having bad to rise superior to the need.
Muriel Strode

It is better to live richly than to die rich.
Muriel Strode

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Muriel Strode

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
Muriel Strode
Topics: Prophecy, Leadership, Travel, How to Live, Originality, Individuality, Journeys, Courage, Vision

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.
Muriel Strode

I am glad the thorn is on my brow, that the blood trickles over my face: when I see my brother’s wounds, I will also feel his pain. I am glad I fell today beneath my cross: when I see another prostrate, I will know the weight of the burden. I am glad I cried for succor: I will know the sound of a heart-cry. I am glad I suffered alone, deserted: I will know the bitterness or desolation.
Muriel Strode

A great work demands a great sacrifice, and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work.
Muriel Strode

I do not bemoan misfortune. To me there is no misfortune. I welcome whatever comes; I go out gladly to meet it.
Muriel Strode

Wishing will bring things in the degree that it incites you to go after them.
Muriel Strode

The earth shall yet surrender to him, and the fates shall do his will, who marches on, though the promised land proved to be but a mirage and the day of deliverance was cancelled. The gods shall yet anoint him, and the morning stars shall sing.
Muriel Strode

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.
Muriel Strode

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Muriel Strode

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