Top 500 Strong Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.”

— Dave Eggers

52. “We are made strong by what we overcome.”

— John Burroughs

53. “Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.”

— Nido R. Qubein

54. “Pain made you strong. Loss made you powerful.”

— Cassandra Clare

55. “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”

— Vernon Howard

56. “Every single day is a battle to stay strong.”

— Demi Lovato

57. “May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

58. “If you don’t appreciate what you have in life right now, whatever it is, you will never realize your purpose. Without appreciation, you will never become strong enough to respect yourself.”

— Caroline Myss

59. “Remember: what you think you will become – good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

60. “A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.”

— John Wooden

61. “Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.”

— Napoleon Hill

62. “You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.”

— Napoleon

63. “When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don’t take things personally.”

— Miguel Ruiz

64. “Smile doesn’t mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you’re strong.”

— Zayn Malik

65. “There is strong shadow where there is much light.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

66. “You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.”

— Frederick Buechner

67. “A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can’t grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

68. “Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.”

— Shawn Johnson

69. “When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

70. “When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.”

— Brian Tracy

71. “A strong egoism is a protection.”

— Sigmund Freud

72. “Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.”

— Brené Brown

73. “Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top.”

— Edmund Hillary

74. “Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.”

— Benjamin Franklin

75. “No one’s life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it’s this adversity – and more specifically our resilience – that makes us strong and successful.”

— Tony Robbins

76. “The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system’s weaknesses irrelevant.”

— Peter F. Drucker

77. “Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.”

— Les Brown

78. “No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.”

— Dōgen

79. “You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

80. “Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn’t give way to these, he’s patient. I’m not as strong as I might be but I’m patient.”

— James Clavell

81. “Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

82. “You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, it’s all in your head.”

— Tony Robbins

83. “Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.”

— Thomas Jefferson

84. “Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

85. “Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?”

— Rumi

86. “Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

87. “When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.”

— Fred Rogers

88. “My legacy doesn’t matter. It isn’t important that I be remembered. It’s important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’ I want to finish strong.”

— James Dobson

89. “To the people that have said I’m too small, I’m not fast enough, I don’t have what it takes, I’m not strong enough. THANK YOU.”

— Muhammad Ali

90. “Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one’s power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.”

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

91. “Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.”

— Sean Covey

92. “We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.”

— Nikki Giovanni

93. “Maybe ‘loner’ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.”

— George Best

94. “The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

— Thomas Carlyle

95. “It’s not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

96. “It all begins with you. If you do not take care of yourself, you will not be strong enough to take care of anything in life.”

— Leon Brown

97. “Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

98. “Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own. Most people can’t do it.”

— Mitch Albom

99. “Let’s be clear, I’m a strong woman.”

— Bethenny Frankel

100. “If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda