Top 500 Strong Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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

402. “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

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

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Dorothy Height

405. “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

406. “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

407. “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

408. “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

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

— Susan B. Anthony

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

— C. S. Lewis

411. “Strong people have strong weaknesses.”

— Peter F. Drucker

412. “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

413. “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

414. “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

415. “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

416. “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

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Khalil Gibran

419. “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

420. “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

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

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Zig Ziglar

423. “When destiny calls you, you’ve got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you’ve got to move on.”

— Phil Collins

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

— Samuel P. Huntington

425. “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

426. “The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.”

— Walter Bagehot

427. “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

428. “Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.”

— Albert Bandura

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

430. “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

431. “The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.”

— Napoleon

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

— George R.R. Martin

433. “What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?”

— Countee Cullen

434. “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

435. “America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.”

— Ronald Reagan

436. “You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.”

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Mireille Guiliano

438. “Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.”

— Thomas Jefferson

439. “He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.”

— Jack London

440. “People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social.”

— Nolan Bushnell

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

442. “Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

443. “If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.”

— Martin Buber

444. “Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!”

— Robert Browning

445. “So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

446. “I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”

— Alexandre Dumas

447. “England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.”

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

448. “You live during the match, and you have strong emotions, but you don’t want to get too overexcited. My body’s totally flat now. I cannot move anymore. I’m totally exhausted, just because of the tension out there.”

— Roger Federer

449. “Are you strong enough to be my man?”

— Sheryl Crow

450. “When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.”

— Plutarch