Strong Quotes

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage, Live, Die

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
Carly Simon

War, Woman, Through

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

Wrong, Knowing, Inner

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna Ciccone

Life, Love, Humor

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Thomas Sowell

Control, Gun, Laws

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
Victor Hugo

Big, Rights, Weak

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Richard Bach

Men, Win, Stronger

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
Theodore Bikel

Power, Strength, Justice

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton

Government, Observe, Neutrality

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
Pope Paul VI

Help, Nothing, Makes

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
Ray Bradbury

Successful, Sense, Reason

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True, Often, False

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens

Home, Word, Spirit

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

Weak, Obstacle, Pathway

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.
Hillary Clinton

Both, China, Russia

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud

Men, Long, Become

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens

Life, Truth, Simple

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John Ruskin

Time, Good, Try

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joyce Brothers

Success, Best, Positive

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

Decision, Between, Themselves

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.
Donald Trump

Mean, Around, Arguing

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Andrew Jackson

Great, Power, Corruption

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
Lance Armstrong

Mom, Character, Tough

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Indira Gandhi

Proud, Service, Nation

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake

Courage, Weak, Cunning

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
Orison Swett Marden

Successful, Place, Else

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer

History, Truth, Spiritual

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
Vladimir Putin

Government, Society, Care

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.
Paula Radcliffe

Yourself, True, Rude

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot

Strength, Woman, Her

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