Top 500 Strong Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

302. “When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don’t get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help.”

— Lori Goodwin

303. “To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

304. “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

305. “May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.”

— Bob Dylan

306. “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

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

— Patti Smith

308. “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

309. “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

310. “Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.”

— Gary Zukav

311. “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

312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Charles Dickens

317. “When you’re the strong one, people don’t give you permission to hurt.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

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

— Joel Edgerton

319. “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

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Elisabeth Elliot

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

— Greta Garbo

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

— Nelson Mandela

325. “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

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

— James Frey

327. “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

328. “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

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

— John Bunyan

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

— Bear Grylls

331. “You can’t exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.”

— J.D. Salinger

332. “I feel a very, very strong bind, and really I’m bound to this country, we either have a border or we don’t. People can come into the country, we welcome people to come but they have to come in legally.”

— Donald Trump

333. “It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.”

— Jodi Picoult

334. “Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!”

— Kenneth Grahame

335. “The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.”

— Victor Hugo

336. “You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong, can withstand anything, that you are not a slave to your body, you don’t have to give in to its whining.”

— Marya Hornbacher

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

— Iyanla Vanzant

338. “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

339. “Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.”

— Guy Finley

340. “We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

341. “Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace – values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It’s the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.”

— Kristin Armstrong

342. “It’s not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”

— Francis Bacon

343. “But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.”

— Bram Stoker

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

— Julia Cameron

345. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.”

— Napoleon Hill

346. “Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

— William Blake

347. “Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

348. “I feel beautiful. I feel strong, and I feel confident in who I am.”

— Demi Lovato

349. “May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— John F. Kennedy