Top 500 Strong Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.”

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Veronica Roth

203. “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

204. “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

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

— Émile Zola

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Michelle Obama

208. “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

209. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

212. “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

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

— Paul Keating

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

— Ann Hood

217. “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

218. “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

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

— James Hetfield

220. “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

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

224. “I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.”

— Maya Angelou

225. “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Erich Fromm

228. “And you said we wouldn’t make it But look how far we’ve come For so long my heart was breaking But now we’re standing strong The things you say They me fall harder each day You’re a trainwreck But I wouldn’t love you if you changed.”

— Demi Lovato

229. “Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.”

— John Milton

230. “Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

231. “If you don’t believe in something, you’ll fall for anything. I believe everything happens for a reason. If you are strong from within, you can will anything. I’m a firm believer that where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

— Eric Davis

232. “Me Brock Lesnar. Here comes the pain. God built me strong. Forget to give me brain.”

— John Cena

233. “I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.”

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Coco Chanel

235. “To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.”

— Pauline Hanson

236. “The race belongs not only to the swift and strong but to those who keep on running.”

— Zoe Koplowitz

237. “There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.”

— Marcus Garvey

238. “Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— Joyce Meyer

240. “Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available for that purpose and in its proper place, therefore, is not at the periphery, but at the center of international relations.”

— J. William Fulbright

241. “The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.”

— Kate Chopin

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

— Richelle Mead

243. “Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

244. “Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.”

— Langston Hughes

245. “A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”

— Jeffrey Archer

246. “Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.”

— Lady Gaga

247. “The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.”

— Billy Graham

248. “White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”

— Jack London

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

— Carl von Clausewitz

250. “You’ve got to be strong enough for love. It’s very easy to be cool and cynical. It’s very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You’ve got to be strong enough for that.”

— Noel Gallagher