Top 500 Strong Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

152. “The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.”

— Jim Rohn

153. “No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I’ve got no time to lose.”

— Henry Rollins

154. “Don’t hold strong opinions about things you don’t truly understand.”

— Kid Cudi

155. “Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.”

— William Faulkner

156. “Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely strong pulling power from the universal source to you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

157. “Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.”

— Timothy Keller

158. “I’m strong on the outside, not all the way through. I’ve never been perfect, but neither have you.”

— Chester Bennington

159. “Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.”

— Kareena Kapoor

160. “Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.”

— Warren Buffett

161. “Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your “once upon a time” is now.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

162. “What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can’t do that, And there’s no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I’ve got time to think it through, And maybe I’m too good for you!”

— Cher

163. “Strong in all the Broken Places.”

— Ernest Hemingway

164. “Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is...”

— Miyamoto Musashi

165. “As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.”

— Michael Johnson

166. “When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.”

— W. Clement Stone

167. “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”

— Margaret Mitchell

168. “Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.”

— Jack London

169. “Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

170. “Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.”

— Watchman Nee

171. “It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

172. “Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.”

— John Wooden

173. “One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

174. “People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they’ll be until they’re in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.”

— Rita Mae Brown

175. “Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.”

— Ronald Reagan

176. “Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

177. “For love is as strong as death.”

— Cassandra Clare

178. “Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

179. “Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.”

— John F. Kennedy

180. “The wind of God’s grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

181. “An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.”

— Aesop

182. “That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.”

— Lauryn Hill

183. “Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.”

— Frank Herbert

184. “If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.”

— Criss Jami

185. “I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.”

— Larry Bird

186. “When I’m weak, you can be strong; when I’m strong, you can be weak. That’s what I believe marriage is.”

— Gisele Bundchen

187. “The strong and the weak cannot keep company.”

— Aesop

188. “Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

189. “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”

— Roald Dahl

190. “The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.””

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

191. “I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

192. “The language of the street is always strong.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

193. “Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.”

— Albert Einstein

194. “The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.”

— Eckhart Tolle

195. “Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.”

— Napoleon

196. “I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I’ve always felt is a sign of respect for others.”

— Nicole Kidman

197. “Leadership is not about being nice. it’s about being right and being strong.”

— Paul Keating

198. “Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

199. “I think men who can cry are strong men.”

— James Frey

200. “Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.”

— Ronald Reagan