Top 500 Strong Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— John Piper

308. “Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

309. “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

310. “You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.”

— George MacDonald

311. “Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.”

— Criss Jami

312. “The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

313. “It feels good to be fit and strong.”

— Joel Edgerton

314. “There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”

— Charles Dickens

315. “Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.”

— Nelson Mandela

316. “Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.”

— Julia Cameron

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317. “Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.”

— John F. Kennedy

318. “I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

319. “I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Jessie J.

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322. “Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.”

— Michel Foucault

323. “When it’s all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you’ll come out standing strong.”

— Joel Osteen

324. “A strong foundation at home sets you up for a strong foundation at work.”

— Robin S. Sharma

325. “Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

326. “I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be strong; they have pressure on them to be strong. However, when it comes to sex, men are much more emotional than women.”

— Patti Smith

327. “Hold on to that new, enlarge vision of victory that God has given you. Start expecting things to change in your favor. Dare to boldly declare that you are standing strong against the forces of darkness.”

— Joel Osteen

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

— Thomas Sowell

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329. “It’s that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you’re in a car, at a party or alone at home or in bed and you hear this song and it just hits you so strong – that’s what we aim for.”

— Julian Casablancas

330. “It’s sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we’ve been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.”

— Carl Sagan

331. “Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”

— Anne Rice

332. “A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages...”

— Hermann Hesse

333. “Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”

— Khalil Gibran

334. “The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

335. “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”

— Henry David Thoreau

336. “Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?”

— Bear Grylls

337. “I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.”

— Greta Garbo

338. “While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.”

— Mary Kay Ash

339. “The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.”

— Matthew Fox

340. “A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.”

— Sigmund Freud

341. “I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.”

— James Frey

342. “Who you are is strong enough to bare your pain.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

343. “You can’t go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you’re weak. It tells them that they’ve wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.”

— Lisa Cach

344. “Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.”

— John Bunyan

345. “A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.”

— Sigmund Freud

346. “The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.”

— Lord Byron

347. “We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”

— Langston Hughes

348. “I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.”

— Angelina Jolie

349. “The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

350. “The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise. It is not ‘something’ we must strive to create. This Self is already fully present, burning strong and waiting for us to come into its presence.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés