Strong Quotes

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

~ Jet Li

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

~ Philip Sidney

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

~ Ramana Maharshi

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

~ Winston Churchill

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

~ Alfred Sisley

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

~ Thomas Szasz

As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.

~ Dick Van Dyke

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

~ Justin Trudeau

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

~ Wendy Kopp

My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.

~ Bill O'reilly

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

~ Jennette Mccurdy

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

~ Thomas Carlyle

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.

~ Catherine Zeta-Jones

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

~ Isabel Allende

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

~ Swami Vivekananda

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

~ Ken Kesey

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

~ Peter Marshall

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

~ Saint Francis De Sales

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

~ Jane Goodall

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

~ Lebron James

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

~ Marge Piercy

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

~ Demi Lovato

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

~ Leo Buscaglia

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

~ Ll Cool J

I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you've got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.

~ Emilia Clarke

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

~ Sylvester Stallone

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

~ William Ellery Channing

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

~ Tecumseh

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

~ Rick Perry

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

When you're strong physically, it improves your strength in every other facet of your life. You're more confident, your self-esteem is higher, and your self image is better.

~ Jillian Michaels

I think the key to beautiful, frizz-free curls in the summer is to keep hair healthy. It's really the strength of your hair that causes frizz, not humidity, so it's really important to me that I keep my curls strong and moisturized to protect my hair from breakage and frizz. It definitely gives my whole summer look a new life!

~ Jillian Hervey

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

~ Winston Churchill

When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.

~ Anne Graham Lotz

If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

~ T. D. Jakes