Top 500 Strong Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.”

— Albert Bandura

452. “You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.”

— Pope John Paul II

453. “America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.”

— Ronald Reagan

454. “If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.”

— Martin Buber

455. “What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?”

— Countee Cullen

456. “One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.”

— Reid Hoffman

457. “Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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458. “Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

459. “Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!”

— Robert Browning

460. “He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.”

— Jack London

461. “Are you strong enough to be my man?”

— Sheryl Crow

462. “So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

463. “It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

464. “People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social.”

— Nolan Bushnell

465. “He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.”

— Johnny Cash

466. “England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.”

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

467. “He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.”

— James Allen

468. “Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

469. “When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.”

— Edith Hamilton

470. “Now up and atom it’s on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what’s strange is nobody knew my name.”

— Tupac Shakur

471. “Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him – or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

472. “Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.”

— David Hume

473. “I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I’m keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better.”

— Kevin Durant

474. “There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because the law makes them so.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

475. “I’m beautifully strong and tragically confused.”

— Lucy Hale

476. “All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.”

— George Orwell

477. “I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they’re properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.”

— Donald Trump

478. “You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don’t feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.”

— Arthur Ashe

479. “Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.”

— Deb Caletti

480. “I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.”

— Brenda Joyce

481. “Want a strong, solid relationship that is willing to go the distance? Get to know your running shoes.”

— Dean Karnazes

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482. “Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.”

— Bob Marley

483. “Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.”

— Anne Rice

484. “Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.”

— Phillips Brooks

485. “Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”

— D. H. Lawrence

486. “I’m a big fan of Israel and frankly a strong prime minister is a strong Israel.”

— Donald Trump

487. “I think scars are like battle wounds – beautiful, in a way. They show what you’ve been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.”

— Demi Lovato

488. “The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.”

— Walter Bagehot

489. “Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear.”

— William Gurnall

490. “Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o’er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.”

— William Blake

491. “I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”

— Alexandre Dumas

492. “Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.”

— Dante Alighieri

493. “Only by the supernatural is a man strong – only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist – nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

494. “People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that – just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

495. “From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

496. “A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.”

— Khalil Gibran

497. “There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.”

— Charles Dickens

498. “Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong – it can end everything.”

— Henry Miller

499. “Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

500. “Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down – the legacy stops here.”

— Melissa Etheridge