Top 500 Strong Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “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

452. “When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.”

— Plutarch

453. “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

454. “Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”

— Khalil Gibran

455. “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

456. “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

457. “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

458. “But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.”

— Louisa May Alcott

459. “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

460. “Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

461. “I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.”

— Veronica Roth

462. “Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

463. “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

464. “Excuse me please, one more drink Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think She broke my heart, my grace is gone One more drink and I’ll move on.”

— Dave Matthews

465. “The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.”

— Uri Geller

466. “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

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

— Lucy Hale

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

— David Hume

469. “The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.”

— Edgar Degas

470. “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

471. “My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.”

— Paula Abdul

472. “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

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

— George Orwell

474. “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

475. “Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.”

— Napoleon

476. “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

477. “Though here at journey’s end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Dean Karnazes

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

— Bob Marley

480. “Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.”

— Anne Rice

481. “The weak are meat the strong do eat.”

— David Mitchell

482. “Stolen’s a strong word. It’s copyrighted content that the owner wasn’t paid for.”

— Bill Gates

483. “Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!”

— Jim Henson

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

— D. H. Lawrence

485. “When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they’ll leak out more life.”

— Tony Robbins

486. “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

487. “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

488. “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

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

— William Gurnall

490. “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

491. “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

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. “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

494. “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

495. “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

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

498. “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

499. “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

500. “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