Top 500 Strong Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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

402. “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

403. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Carl Sagan

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Milan Kundera

408. “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

409. “Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Barack Obama

411. “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

412. “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

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

— Ella Baker

414. “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

415. “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

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

— Homer

417. “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

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

— Pino Caruso

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419. “When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they’ll leak out more life.”

— Tony Robbins

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

— Jack London

421. “Without Community Service we wouldnot have a strong quality of Life.”

— Dorothy Height

422. “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

423. “He’s six-foot two, brave as a lion, strong as an ox and quick as lightning. If he was good looking, you’d say he has everything.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

424. “Strong people have strong weaknesses.”

— Peter F. Drucker

425. “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

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

— Walt Whitman

427. “I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.”

— Franz Kafka

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

— Paul Cézanne

429. “I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.”

— Khalil Gibran

430. “There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.”

— Robert Frost

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

432. “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

433. “Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It’s only half past twelve but I don’t care, it’s 5 O’clock somewhere.”

— Alan Jackson

434. “Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

435. “When you’re grieving that’s not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show.”

— Zig Ziglar

436. “Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. So it’s important for me to be as strong as I can when I leave home so I can hold space for all of it.”

— Jason Mraz

437. “The IKEA spirit is strong and living reality. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers.”

— Ingvar Kamprad

438. “It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.”

— Susan B. Anthony

439. “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.”

— C. S. Lewis

440. “Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you – like me.”

— Maynard James Keenan

441. “Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

442. “You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.”

— Khalil Gibran

443. “I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.”

— John Wooden

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444. “Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.”

— Samuel P. Huntington

445. “To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one’s own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one’s own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

446. “The women are the strong ones, truly.”

— George R.R. Martin

447. “The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I’m the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”

— Suzanne Collins

448. “True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.”

— John Piper

449. “God’s grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.”

— Oswald Chambers

450. “Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.”

— Mireille Guiliano