Top 500 Strong Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It’s the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.”

— Dorothy Height

352. “I’m a strong person. I’m a warrior and I know what is inside of me.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Henry Rollins

354. “The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.”

— Maria Montessori

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

356. “The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Marilyn Monroe

358. “A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.”

— Johnny Cash

359. “Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor’s sake, stand fast and suffer long.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

360. “The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.”

— Lord Acton

361. “There’s no pillow quite so soft as a father’s strong shoulder.”

— Richard L. Evans

362. “The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them... the weak will become prey to the strong.”

— Thomas Paine

363. “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

364. “You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”

— Louisa May Alcott

365. “He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

366. “The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love’s wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.”

— Rumi

367. “God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.”

— J.G. Holland

368. “We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”

— Otto von Bismarck

369. “Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.”

— John Wooden

370. “That which makes you different is what makes you strong. Whether you’re gay, straight, purple, orange, dinosaur; I don’t care.”

— Darren Criss

371. “The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.”

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Langston Hughes

373. “Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

374. “Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice.”

— Michael Jackson

375. “Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.”

— Napoleon Hill

376. “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

377. “The important thing is that you’ve got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.”

— Richard Branson

378. “But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”

— Milan Kundera

379. “A strong-willed child – a strong-willed child, more than anyone else, needs to learn to use emotion and discussion to resolve issues. That’s the last child in the whole world you want to hit.”

— Sean Hannity

380. “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

381. “Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

382. “People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.”

— Pino Caruso

383. “You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.”

— J.D. Salinger

384. “I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

385. “Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.”

— Carl Sagan

386. “I’m a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn’t comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.”

— Farrah Gray

387. “The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

388. “Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.”

— Homer

389. “I’m a big fan of Israel and frankly a strong prime minister is a strong Israel.”

— Donald Trump

390. “If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

391. “Africa doesn’t need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.”

— Barack Obama

392. “This conflict is one thing I’ve been waiting for. I’m well and strong and young – young enough to go to the front. If I can’t be a soldier, I’ll help soldiers.”

— Clara Barton

393. “Strong and content I travel the open road.”

— Walt Whitman

394. “The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.”

— Jack London

395. “The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.”

— Tom Robbins

396. “If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.”

— Paul Cézanne

397. “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

398. “My theory is, strong people don’t need strong leaders.”

— Ella Baker

399. “Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

400. “Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.”

— Emma Goldman