Top 500 Strong Quotes
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251. “May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Audrey Hepburn

254. “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

255. “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

256. “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

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

— John Cena

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

— Pauline Hanson

259. “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

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

— Zoe Koplowitz

261. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

265. “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

266. “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

267. “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

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

— Lady Gaga

269. “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

270. “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

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

— Jack London

272. “Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.”

— Blaise Pascal

273. “I have a strong will to love you for eternity.”

— Milan Kundera

274. “Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.”

— Margaret Thatcher

275. “What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith – to trust and obey, no matter what.”

— Kay Arthur

276. “The strong must protect the sweet.”

— Homer

277. “If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

278. “The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don’t need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds.”

— Tariq Ramadan

279. “I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.”

— Emma Watson

280. “Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”

— Meister Eckhart

281. “But tomorrow I see a change, a chance to build anew, built on Spirit, intent of heart, and ideas based on truth. Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong ideas of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.”

— Tupac Shakur

282. “If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

283. “Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink. We were, after all, the cream of the national sporting press.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

284. “Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It’s always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it arises in us, we’ve simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.”

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

285. “A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

286. “The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

287. “When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God’s promises have strong confirmation in Christ.”

— John Calvin

288. “Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.”

— Vernon Howard

289. “Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

290. “The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

291. “Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”

— Victor Hugo

292. “Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

293. “I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”

— Jeanette Winterson

294. “Choices will continually be necessary and – let us not forget – possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

295. “We have both a weak self and a strong self; the two are completely different. If we allow our weak side to dominate, we will be defeated. The thought ,“I am still young and have a lot of time, so I can relax and take life easy” is a function of our own weakness.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

296. “When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I’m more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.”

— Mariska Hargitay

297. “Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture – this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.”

— John Piper

298. “When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.”

— Helen Keller

299. “Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

300. “Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you’re doing it out of fear.”

— Sarah Dessen