Top 500 Strong Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I have a strong will to love you for eternity.”

— Milan Kundera

252. “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

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

— Margaret Thatcher

254. “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

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

257. “The strong must protect the sweet.”

— Homer

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

— Emma Watson

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

— Robin S. Sharma

260. “Do good. Inspire. Set an example to yourself and others. Have faith. Make your actions loud. Have fun. Be nice. Love strong.”

— Jessie J.

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

— Tony Dorsett

262. “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

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Anna Quindlen

266. “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

267. “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

268. “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

269. “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

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

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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

— Carl von Clausewitz

272. “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

273. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Grace Jones

277. “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

278. “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

279. “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

280. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

282. “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

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

— Susan Sontag

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Neale Donald Walsch

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

— John Wooden

287. “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

288. “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

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

— Aesop

290. “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

291. “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

292. “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

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

— John Piper

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

— Alexandre Dumas

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. “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. “Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.”

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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