Top 500 Strong Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.”

— Susan Sontag

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Alexandre Dumas

254. “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

255. “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

256. “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

257. “We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry.”

— Timothy Keller

258. “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

259. “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

260. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

262. “I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Audrey Hepburn

264. “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

265. “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

266. “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

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

— John Cena

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

— Pauline Hanson

269. “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

270. “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

271. “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

272. “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

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

— Jack London

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

— Lady Gaga

275. “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

276. “If a man has a strong faith, he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Milan Kundera

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

— Blaise Pascal

279. “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

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. “The strong must protect the sweet.”

— Homer

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

— Carl von Clausewitz

283. “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

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

— Emma Watson

285. “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

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

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

287. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

289. “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

290. “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

291. “Surround yourself with people strong enough to change your mind.”

— John Wooden

292. “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

293. “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

294. “The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.”

— Napoleon

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

— Victor Hugo

296. “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

297. “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

298. “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

299. “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

300. “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