Top 100 Be Strong But Quotes
#1. But deep down she said to herself, Franz may be strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness.
Milan Kundera
#2. I should try to be strong, but baby, you're the right kind of wrong.
LeAnn Rimes
#3. How important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once ...
Primo Levi
#4. It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#5. I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women.
Patti Smith
#6. It's great to be strong but strength is nothing without having compassion.
Terry Crews
#7. The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn
#8. Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.
Jane Fonda
#9. I read somewhere ... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong ... to measure yourself at least once.
Jon Krakauer
#10. Both my mom and my grandma were really big influences on me not only by being strong and teaching me to be strong but also owning their salt as well.
Miranda Lambert
#11. Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.
Carol Shields
#12. I may not be strong, but I am fierce
Jeff King
#13. Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
Aunjanue Ellis
#14. Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
Zig Ziglar
#15. Men need to be strong, but not bullies. They need to know how to not get emotionally lost in situations, but not be cold and emotionless. They need to know the full variety of emotions as well as thinking and acting. Not just the most limited ways of doing things.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#16. You can be strong but sometimes the loneliness is so overwhelming that you don't know if you'll be able to take another breath.
AnnaLisa Grant
#17. Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means
Doris Humphrey
#18. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.
Martin Luther
#19. Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger,
And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.
Peter S. Beagle
#20. It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
Jon Krakauer
#21. I used to be strong,but now I am weak.
I used to be pretty,but now I look sick.
E. Lockhart
#22. In the uneven balance of life, I'd experienced love and loss. The loss challenged me to be strong, but it was the love that supported me when I was weak. I was a survivor.
Rebecca Donovan
#23. We resist our brokenness because we want to BE STRONG, but little do we know that strength is obtained only through our brokenness, because where we are weak and broken we find God's strength to get us through.
Heather Bixler
#25. People talk about the ability to endure. To endure anything and everything, to keep going, to be strong. But you can do that only if you're not alone. That's always the infrastructure life's built on. A closeness with others. Alone it all becomes a struggle of mere endurance.
Iain Reid
#26. It is important in life not to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once. If you want something in life, reach out and grab it.
Christopher McCandless
#27. The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#28. A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.
Olga Kurylenko
#29. I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.
Liane Holliday Willey
#30. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce
#31. I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
Maeve Binchy
#32. Together we could be so strong, but the gun has made us individuals.
Marieke Nijkamp
#33. The issue isn't
nor should it ever be
how weak our child is, but rather how strong our God is.
Tim Kimmel
#34. I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities.
Twyla Tharp
#35. Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated.
John Bevere
#36. He may be King Redrought Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, Bear of the North, Defender of the Realm, Descendent of Thor, but to Thirrin he was just Dad, a man with a fondness for cats, a taste for comfy slippers and a huge laugh that could dent pewter at fifty paces.
Stuart Hill
#37. A nathion is as strong as the hearts of its women. It's warriors may be brave and many, but when the blood of it's women spills upon the earth, the battle is lost.
Pam Godwin
#38. It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
Euripides
#39. I may not be loud but that doesn't mean I'm not strong within myself. My mum and dad instilled in me to stand up for what I believe in - and I do.
Leona Lewis
#40. Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#41. It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way
Louisa May Alcott
#42. Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#43. If anyone can be trusted, it's the Savior. He's always true, always faithful, loving, kind, right ... He never left me then, but stayed firm and strong, like a rock. I learned - even though it's tough sometimes - my Father knows best.
Ocieanna Fleiss
#44. Strong could be dealt with - but crazy? Oh no. You never knew what the crazy were going to do.
Andrea Speed
#45. Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Barry White
#46. You are not a lost cause. You are a hawk who has had her wings clipped for so long that she had forgotten to fly. But when they fully heal and you are let out of the cage, you are going to soar, Alyssa, so high above everyone else that we will be just dots below, forever forgotten. ~Caleb
Kristi Strong
#47. The best way is to be strong enough to make your enemy think twice about attacking you, yet not so aggressive that he feels threatened. Keep your sword sheathed as long as you can, but once it is unsheathed, use it without hesitation.
Lian Hearn
#48. This is life in a fallen world, where wars come and go, where nations rage and people cry in torment. We must be strong, not in ourselves, but in Him. And trust that His love and His wisdom and His light will see us through.
Janette Oke
#49. I think athletically I can be okay with any role, but I'm willing to go over and beyond for my work. My fan base is so strong and loyal, and they wanna see me evolve. I'm where I'm supposed to be and I want to challenge myself with the people that are doing it real big.
Pooch Hall
#50. We are like water, aren't we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too. And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.
Wally Lamb
#51. Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.
Richard Parks Bland
#52. Life is like a war. There will always be people trying to shoot you down. But it's your choice whether you're going to surrender, fight back, or dodge the bullet.
Peyton
#53. I will be strong enough to go without the tablet. But there are other things I'm not strong enough to go without, and I intend to fight for them. (Cassia Reyes)
Ally Condie
#54. When something flipping out to the worse, don't feel bad. But be strong and make yourself hard so that the situations stop taking chance to hurt you.
Giridhar Alwar
#55. At the start of the season you're strong enough to win the Premiership and the European Cup, but you have to be as strong in March, when the fish are down.
Gianluca Vialli
#56. I was born a strong, powerful woman, but was raised to be a victim.
Sharon Law Tucker
#57. angry and pushed the love aside, but it was too strong for me to fight. All my heart needed was to be near him again to remember that it beats for him.
K.L. Grayson
#58. He'd survived, his mind strong. Others ... others were broken. The healing process was going to be a long one, but Judd had pledged himself to it
That thought in mind, he headed to his room to wash up before going to Brenna. Not seeing her wasn't an option ...
Nalini Singh
#59. A very pleasant surprise was that items I thought were naughty but that I enjoyed immensely, like strong coffee, dark chocolate, nuts, high fat yoghurt, wine and cheese, are actually likely to be healthy for me and my microbes.
Tim Spector
#60. It was soon evident in my lodgings that I had become a dangerous lunatic, and there would be nothing left to destroy if strong measures were not taken. So I was turned out of the house, but it was only into the garden, where I was allowed to build a small darkroom of oilcloth.
Henry Peach Robinson
#61. A man is never too young to kill, never too wise, never too strong, but he can damn well be too rich.
Pierce Brown
#62. Ain't nothin' better
We beat the odds together
I'm glad we didn't listen
Look at what we would be missin'
They said "I bet they'll never make it"
But just look at us holdin' on
We're still together still goin' strong
Shania Twain
#63. I've been used to consider poetry as the food of love " Mr.Darcy
Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away." Eliza
Jane Austen
#64. The road might seem long,
But the joy of arriving makes it all worth it.
All I have to do is be strong.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#65. But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
Georg Brandes
#66. We are not so High or strong as the most beautiful trees, but our kindly habits and attitude can be so powerful as well.
Jan Jansen
Jan Jansen
#67. You know what I miss the most about my youth? My gullibility. It's nice believing in everything and everyone. It makes you feel secure, but be strong and depend more on yourself and you'll be ready for disappointments. That's the best advice I can offer you.
V.C. Andrews
#68. Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.
Gail Devers
#69. She's so strong and fierce that I am afraid of her sometimes. But she's going to need to be fierce, because the path she is on is going to be so painful.
Alyssa Brugman
#70. I say "illusion" of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.
Geoffrey Wood
#71. I wasn't entirely sure how to reply. Blow me and Screw you both seemed like strong contenders, but the peanut gallery in my head appeared to be favoring castration.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#72. But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know everything about yourself, including your most hidden secrets, the ones most difficult to accept.
Susanna Tamaro
#73. I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation..
Paulo Coelho
#74. Of course, ISIS is a terrible organization that has to be defeated. And, of course, we need a strong military. But just as with every other agency of government, you know what, the military also has got to get rid of waste and fraud and cost overruns.
Hillary Clinton
#75. The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.
Henry Blodget
#76. But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on
Wendelin Van Draanen
#77. The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
Damon Runyon
#78. Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.
Hassan Nasrallah
#79. No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.
Ferdinand Marcos
#80. We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.
Ron Paul
#81. If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
Nikki Giovanni
#82. I don't know what it is but every time I see you I feel such a strong urge, to be near you, to protect you, to hold you in my arms and never let you go.
Luke Nero - The Witchlings-Midnight curse
Amanda Turner
#83. I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
Karl Rove
#84. Kanai, the dreamers have everyone to speak for them,' she said, 'But those who try to be strong, who try to build things - no one ever sees any poetry in that, do they?
Amitav Ghosh
#85. I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.
Brenda Joyce
#86. It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way.
Johnny Weir
#87. I like Sergio Martinez. I think he's strong, he's gritty, he's got plenty of heart, he's not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.
Bernard Hopkins
#88. In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.
George Andrews
#89. I've never felt stronger than when I was packing up my room at Richard's place. [...] I've also never felt sadder. Sad but strong. You can be both. And I am.
Emery Lord
#90. That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.
Ellen Dreyer
#91. In life u will make mistakes and people will try and tear u down ... but u gotta stay positive. Stay strong..and learn to be better..and..always live to serve others and The Lord.
Justin Bieber
#92. It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
Martin Luther
#93. I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
Molly Parker
#94. He might be quiet, but he had a strong, unshakeable presence about him.
Anonymous
#95. I did used to like trampolining, but I'm probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I've had three children.
Tamsin Greig
#96. This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
Martin Luther
#97. Carefully I opened my eyes and looked at him again. All his natural gifts were there in a blaze of light: the delicate but strong limbs, large sober brown eyes, and his mouth that for all the irony and sarcasm that could come out of it was childlike and ready to be kissed.
Anne Rice
#98. I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.
Tippi Hedren
#99. Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.
Elif Shafak
#100. Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I'll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game.
Pippa DaCosta
