Top 500 Strong Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

353. “But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all stronger together.”

— Bram Stoker

354. “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

355. “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

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

— Demi Lovato

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Michael Jackson

359. “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

360. “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

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

— Anne Frank

362. “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

363. “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

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

— Lord Acton

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

— Richard L. Evans

366. “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

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

368. “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

369. “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

370. “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

371. “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

372. “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

373. “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

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

— Darren Criss

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Michael Jackson

378. “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

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

— Langston Hughes

380. “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

381. “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

382. “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

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

— Milan Kundera

384. “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

385. “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

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

— Carl Sagan

387. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Homer

390. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

392. “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

393. “Every sailor knows that you can’t sail a ship that isn’t moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Pino Caruso

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

— Ella Baker

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

— Jack London

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

— Paul Cézanne

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

— Walt Whitman

400. “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