Strength encompasses a multifaceted range of attributes, spanning physical, emotional, mental, and moral dimensions. Physically, it denotes robustness and the ability to endure and perform demanding tasks. Emotionally, it refers to resilience and the capacity to navigate challenges with fortitude. On a mental level, strength embodies cognitive prowess, encompassing analytical thinking and problem-solving. In terms of character, strength is manifested through moral integrity, perseverance, and the ability to uphold ethical values. Financially, it signifies stability and sound economic standing. In relationships, it involves strong interpersonal skills and the ability to foster positive connections. Whether expressed through physical might, emotional resilience, intellectual prowess, moral integrity, or relational adeptness, strength takes on diverse forms, reflecting a holistic and comprehensive concept.
Strong Quotes
1. “Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.”
— Albert Einstein
2. “Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be proud, but not arrogant.”
— Zig Ziglar
3. “Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
— Orison Swett Marden
4. “Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.”
— Les Brown
5. “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
— Henrik Ibsen
6. “Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.”
— Immanuel Kant
7. “Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.”
— Og Mandino
8. “Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.”
— Yasmin Mogahed
9. “People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.”
— Johnny Depp
10. “There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.”
— Usain Bolt
11. “Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.”
— Swami Vivekananda
12. “Only the strong survive.”
— Allen Iverson
13. “Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!”
— Swami Vivekananda
14. “Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.”
— Daisaku Ikeda
15. “Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.”
— Bear Grylls
16. “The strong must learn to be lonely.”
— Henrik Ibsen
17. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.”
— LeBron James
18. “A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.”
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
19. “Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
20. “You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief, you will not go far.”
— Paulo Coelho
21. “No matter how talented you are not everyone is going to like you but that’s life, stay strong.”
— Justin Bieber
22. “Whatever my situation, I’m a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.”
— Mike Tyson
23. “If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.”
— Napoleon Hill
24. “Everyone wants to be strong and self-sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
25. “It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.”
— Queen Latifah
26. “In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Whoever is more mentally strong wins.”
— Muhammad Ali
27. “Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn’t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.”
— Paulo Coelho
28. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”
— Peter Marshall
29. “If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.”
— John F. Kennedy
30. “You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to have a strong superstructure.”
— Gordon B. Hinckley
31. “As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.”
— James Allen
32. “If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”
— Masaru Emoto
33. “I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.”
— Deepak Chopra
34. “There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.”
— Ellen Glasgow
35. “Rapport is the ability to enter someone else’s world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.”
— Tony Robbins
36. “You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.”
— Swami Vivekananda
37. “We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.”
— Isabel Allende
38. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”
— Napoleon Hill
39. “Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy, it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”
— Miyamoto Musashi
40. “A strong spirit transcends rules.”
— Prince
41. “Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.”
— David Gemmell
42. “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
— Marcus Aurelius
43. “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”
— Michael Jackson
44. “A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”
— James Allen
45. “If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn’t it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?”
— Maya Angelou
46. “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
— Bertrand Russell
47. “We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.”
— Dale Carnegie
48. “People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.”
— Sam Harris
49. “When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.”
— Antisthenes
50. “For the protection of state and welfare of the people, a ruler should collect all types of wealth. By suing devices of sama, dama, danda, bheda, he shold increase income of the state, strong administration helps in collecting different types of taxes for exchequer.”
— Chanakya
51. “Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.”
— Dave Eggers
52. “We are made strong by what we overcome.”
— John Burroughs
53. “Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.”
— Nido R. Qubein
54. “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”
— Vernon Howard
55. “Pain made you strong. Loss made you powerful.”
— Cassandra Clare
56. “If you don’t appreciate what you have in life right now, whatever it is, you will never realize your purpose. Without appreciation, you will never become strong enough to respect yourself.”
— Caroline Myss
57. “Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.”
— Napoleon Hill
58. “May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
59. “Every single day is a battle to stay strong.”
— Demi Lovato
60. “Remember: what you think you will become – good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
61. “A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.”
— John Wooden
62. “When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don’t take things personally.”
— Miguel Ruiz
63. “A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can’t grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.”
— Dalai Lama XIV
64. “You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.”
— Napoleon
65. “You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.”
— Frederick Buechner
66. “Smile doesn’t mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you’re strong.”
— Zayn Malik
67. “There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
68. “When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.”
— Brian Tracy
69. “No one’s life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it’s this adversity – and more specifically our resilience – that makes us strong and successful.”
— Tony Robbins
70. “When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.”
— Thomas Jefferson
71. “Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.”
— Shawn Johnson
72. “Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top.”
— Edmund Hillary
73. “Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.”
— Brené Brown
74. “No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.”
— Dōgen
75. “Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.”
— Les Brown
76. “A strong egoism is a protection.”
— Sigmund Freud
77. “Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn’t give way to these, he’s patient. I’m not as strong as I might be but I’m patient.”
— James Clavell
78. “Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.”
— Napoleon Hill
79. “Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
80. “The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system’s weaknesses irrelevant.”
— Peter F. Drucker
81. “Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.”
— Viktor E. Frankl
82. “You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, its all in your head.”
— Tony Robbins
83. “Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.”
— Thomas Jefferson
84. “You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
85. “Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.”
— Benjamin Franklin
86. “Maybe ‘loner’ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.”
— George Best
87. “When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.”
— Fred Rogers
88. “We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.”
— Nikki Giovanni
89. “Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one’s power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.”
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
90. “My legacy doesn’t matter. It isn’t important that I be remembered. It’s important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’ I want to finish strong.”
— James Dobson
91. “Let’s be clear, I’m a strong woman.”
— Bethenny Frankel
92. “It’s not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
93. “Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
94. “Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own. Most people can’t do it.”
— Mitch Albom
95. “The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
— Thomas Carlyle
96. “To the people that have said I’m too small, I’m not fast enough, I don’t have what it takes, I’m not strong enough. THANK YOU.”
— Muhammad Ali
97. “The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
98. “Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?”
— Rumi
99. “If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
100. “We don’t always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave, and courageous for way too long…”
— Johnny Depp
101. “You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I’ve never been so strong. Now I’m where I belong.”
— Maya Angelou
102. “It all begins with you. If you do not take care of yourself, you will not be strong enough to take care of anything in life.”
— Leon Brown
103. “We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual, and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don’t have to stay down.”
— Steve Goodier
104. “Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
105. “A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it’ll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.”
— Andre Agassi
106. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”
— Winston Churchill
107. “Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.”
— Sean Covey
108. “Be strong-be strong in the discipline of self. How many otherwise good men squander their strength and dissipate their will and literally destroy their lives because they have not the power of self-discipline.”
— Gordon B. Hinckley
109. “Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
110. “When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.”
— Thomas Merton
111. “Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down.”
— Swami Vivekananda
112. “The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.”
— Swami Vivekananda
113. “If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.”
— Thomas Jefferson
114. “Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil.”
— David Gemmell
115. “Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.”
— Albert Einstein
116. “It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.”
— Otto von Bismarck
117. “Strong feelings are fine; it’s the overreactions that mess us up.”
— Albert Ellis
118. “As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn’t, but it wasn’t hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.”
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
119. “Mentally strong people are comfortable in their own skin.”
— John C. Maxwell
120. “When you’re strong and good, then you’re Bad.”
— Michael Jackson
121. “It’s hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I’m ready. I’m ready for my performance.”
— Lady Gaga
122. “Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.”
— Jesse Jackson
123. “Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”
— Napoleon Hill
124. “If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
125. “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.”
— John F. Kennedy
126. “The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.”
— Miyamoto Musashi
127. “Anything can be achieved with a strong enough why!”
— Tony Robbins
128. “But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn’t really bother me.”
— Usain Bolt
129. “All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
130. “Sometimes when you smile, it’s not because you’re happy. It’s because you’re strong.”
— Pamela Anderson
131. “Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start.”
— Zig Ziglar
132. “The heart’s affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.”
— Khalil Gibran
133. “We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.”
— Watchman Nee
134. “To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.”
— Winston Churchill
135. “I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
136. “When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”
— Joseph Campbell
137. “My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She’s been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I’m a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.”
— Kevin Durant
138. “There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.”
— Stephen R. Covey
139. “The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.”
— Ovid
140. “The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force, but drive it back, because what they’re fighting for rightfully belongs to them.”
— Patrick Henry
141. “The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
142. “A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.”
— Émile Durkheim
143. “In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace, the rich make slaves of the poor.”
— Oscar Wilde
144. “I think that if you use the so-called “strong words” you’ll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.”
— Frank Zappa
145. “Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals – they are both essential ingredients for long-term success.”
— Bill Ford
146. “Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.”
— C. S. Lewis
147. “Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue.”
— Thomas S. Monson
148. “If you’re a strong female, you don’t need permission.”
— Lady Gaga
149. “Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.”
— Timothy Keller
150. “What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well, I can’t do that, And there’s no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I’ve got time to think it through, And maybe I’m too good for you!”
— Cher
151. “No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I’ve got no time to lose.”
— Henry Rollins
152. “Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust, and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely strong pulling power from the universal source to you.”
— Wayne W. Dyer
153. “The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.”
— Swami Vivekananda
154. “Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.”
— Jack London
155. “I’m strong on the outside, not all the way through. I’ve never been perfect, but neither have you.”
— Chester Bennington
156. “Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.”
— Kareena Kapoor
157. “LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!”
— Leonard Ravenhill
158. “Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your “once upon a time” is now.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
159. “Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counterargument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
160. “Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.”
— Watchman Nee
161. “The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.”
— Jim Rohn
162. “People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they’ll be until they’re in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.”
— Rita Mae Brown
163. “Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.”
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
164. “Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
165. “As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.”
— Michael Johnson
166. “Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature, and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.”
— Daisaku Ikeda
167. “The wind of God’s grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
168. “That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.”
— Lauryn Hill
169. “An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.”
— Aesop
170. “If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.”
— Criss Jami
171. “Don’t hold strong opinions about things you don’t truly understand.”
— Kid Cudi
172. “Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.”
— William Faulkner
173. “While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.”
— Rick Warren
174. “When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.”
— W. Clement Stone
175. “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
— Margaret Mitchell
176. “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
— Roald Dahl
177. “I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
178. “Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.”
— Warren Buffett
179. “It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.”
— Charles H. Spurgeon
180. “Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.”
— John Wooden
181. “Strong in all the Broken Places.”
— Ernest Hemingway
182. “The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.”
— Eckhart Tolle
183. “Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is…”
— Miyamoto Musashi
184. “Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.”
— Ronald Reagan
185. “Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.”
— John F. Kennedy
186. “Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.”
— Napoleon
187. “I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I’ve always felt is a sign of respect for others.”
— Nicole Kidman
188. “Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.”
— Ronald Reagan
189. “No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.”
— Peter F. Drucker
190. “Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.”
— Andrew Carnegie
191. “We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals – opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.”
— Barack Obama
192. “Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.”
— Frank Herbert
193. “Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
194. “Strong women leave big hickies.”
— Madonna
195. “Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.”
— Maya Angelou
196. “Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.”
— Douglas MacArthur
197. “By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving, and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life.”
— Debbie Ford
198. “A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience, and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.”
— Frederick Douglass
199. “When I’m weak, you can be strong; when I’m strong, you can be weak. That’s what I believe marriage is.”
— Gisele Bundchen
200. “The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
201. “I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.”
— Khalil Gibran
202. “Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
203. “Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.”
— Albert Einstein
204. “For love is as strong as death.”
— Cassandra Clare
205. “I think men who can cry are strong men.”
— James Frey
206. “I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.”
— Madonna
207. “Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police – as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.”
— Thomas Sowell
208. “All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!”
— Walt Whitman
209. “You know, there’s a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it’s coward.”
— Veronica Roth
210. “I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.”
— Larry Bird
211. “It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.”
— Émile Zola
212. “People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you’re OK. You can’t go wrong.”
— James Hetfield
213. “The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only “the first step toward greatness,” it is greatness itself.”
— Christian N. Bovee
214. “Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.”
— Sarah Dessen
215. “O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.”
— John Milton
216. “Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
217. “There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.”
— Angelina Jolie
218. “I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.”
— Maya Angelou
219. “Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.”
— Michelle Obama
220. “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.”
— Audrey Hepburn
221. “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”
— Barack Obama
222. “To love somebody is not just a strong feeling – it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.”
— Erich Fromm
223. “And you said we wouldn’t make it But look how far we’ve come For so long my heart was breaking But now we’re standing strong The things you say They me fall harder each day You’re a trainwreck But I wouldn’t love you if you changed.”
— Demi Lovato
224. “Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.”
— John Milton
225. “One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
226. “The language of the street is always strong.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
227. “Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
228. “Me Brock Lesnar. Here comes the pain. God built me strong. Forget to give me brain.”
— John Cena
229. “If you don’t believe in something, you’ll fall for anything. I believe everything happens for a reason. If you are strong from within, you can will anything. I’m a firm believer that where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
— Eric Davis
230. “I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.”
— Charlotte Brontë
231. “Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.”
— Viktor E. Frankl
232. “I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.”
— Coco Chanel
233. “To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.”
— Pauline Hanson
234. “Leadership is not about being nice. it’s about being right and being strong.”
— Paul Keating
235. “I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.”
— Ann Hood
236. “The race belongs not only to the swift and strong but to those who keep on running.”
— Zoe Koplowitz
237. “Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.”
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
238. “There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.”
— Marcus Garvey
239. “Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available for that purpose and in its proper place, therefore, is not at the periphery, but at the center of international relations.”
— J. William Fulbright
240. “The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.”
— Kate Chopin
241. “The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!”
— Joyce Meyer
242. “Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
243. “A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”
— Jeffrey Archer
244. “Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.”
— Langston Hughes
245. “The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.”
— Billy Graham
246. “You’re strong – you’re so, so strong. It’s why I love you.”
— Richelle Mead
247. “Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once.”
— Lady Gaga
248. “White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”
— Jack London
249. “The best strategy is always to be very strong.”
— Carl von Clausewitz
250. “I have a strong will to love you for eternity.”
— Milan Kundera