Muriel Strode
16 quotes.
Quotes by 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.
- Conditions may make some men, but some men can make conditions.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Heredity is much, environment is much, but I am much more.
- I may grow flowers in my garden which you do not like, but the pity is if I allow you to trample them out.
- I may not overcome the inevitable, but O, it is mine to see that the inevitable does not overcome me.
- I said I did not have time, but to what did I give the time, and was it a fair exchange?
- I will annihilate the narrow margin that lies between me and my unused potency.
- I will not follow where the path may lead; instead I will go where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Intensity of desire will always find a way, just as weakness of purpose will always find an excuse.
- It is only the long and patient road that leads to anywhere.
- Life may take everything out of my days, but the real things remain. You may destroy my castles, but I have the timbers to build ten thousand more.
- My environment may be making me what I am, but I am permitting the environment.
- Say not that this or that thing came to thwart you; it only came to test you.
- Who thinks he will fail — will probably fail. Who believes that dreams are only dreams — will probably find it so. Who doubts himself — will achieve only such results as will confirm it.
- Yesterday's weaving is as irrevocable as yesterday. I may not draw out the threads, but I may change my shuttle.