Strong Quotes

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
-Abraham Lincoln

"A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."
-Buddha

"One must need to be strong, else one will never become strong."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Frankly, I'm suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue."
-Scott Adams

"Strong reasons make strong actions."
-William Shakespeare

"Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."
-Carl Sagan

"Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect."
-William Shakespeare

"Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable."
-M. C. Escher

"I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood."
-William Shakespeare

"The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept."
-Thucydides

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."
-Seneca

"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
-Ernest Hemingway

"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying."
-Michel de Montaigne

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

"Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body."
-Pythagoras

"Men should be like coffee, hot sweet and strong."
-Dutch Proverb

"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

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
-Calvin Coolidge

"It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"Do not think of your faults, still less of others' 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

"Strong women leave big hickies."
-Madonna

"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."
-Cyril Connolly