Top 500 Strong Quotes
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201. “I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.”

— Madonna

202. “Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.”

— Andrew Carnegie

203. “No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.”

— Peter F. Drucker

204. “We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals – opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.”

— Barack Obama

205. “Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.”

— Maya Angelou

206. “Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

207. “By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life.”

— Debbie Ford

208. “Strong women leave big hickies.”

— Madonna

209. “A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.”

— Frederick Douglass

210. “You know, there’s a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it’s coward.”

— Veronica Roth

211. “It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.”

— Émile Zola

212. “Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.”

— Michelle Obama

213. “I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.”

— Khalil Gibran

214. “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”

— Barack Obama

215. “To love somebody is not just a strong feeling – it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.”

— Erich Fromm

216. “Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

217. “Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

218. “I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.”

— Coco Chanel

219. “I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.”

— Ann Hood

220. “The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!”

— Joyce Meyer

221. “The best strategy is always to be very strong.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

222. “You’re strong – you’re so, so strong. It’s why I love you.”

— Richelle Mead

223. “To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

224. “Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.”

— Douglas MacArthur

225. “I’m a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.”

— Tony Dorsett

226. “Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.”

— Karl Marx

227. “Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police – as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.”

— Thomas Sowell

228. “Power isn’t control at all – power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”

— Beth Revis

229. “Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

230. “A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.”

— Anna Quindlen

231. “All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!”

— Walt Whitman

232. “The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong.”

— George R.R. Martin

233. “A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.”

— Epicurus

234. “When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.”

— Grace Jones

235. “It is the weak man who urges compromise – never the strong man.”

— Elbert Hubbard

236. “We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation.”

— Nick Vujicic

237. “People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you’re OK. You can’t go wrong.”

— James Hetfield

238. “There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.”

— Ray Dalio

239. “What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.”

— Susan Sontag

240. “The goal is to help the weak grow strong, not to let the weak become weaker.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

241. “One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.”

— Elbert Hubbard

242. “I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.”

— Langston Hughes

243. “Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”

— Alexandre Dumas

244. “I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I’m out of my sphere now, for woman’s special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens.”

— Louisa May Alcott

245. “To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

246. “The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only “the first step toward greatness,” it is greatness itself.”

— Christian N. Bovee

247. “When you’re the strong one, people don’t give you permission to hurt.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

248. “Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.”

— Sarah Dessen

249. “O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.”

— John Milton

250. “There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.”

— Angelina Jolie