Looking for some powerful quotes about strong men? We have rounded up the best collection of strong man quotes, sayings, messages, captions, (with images and pictures) to inspire you to draw strength in the face of adversity.
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Power, courage, strength, purposefulness, and decisiveness are the characteristics of strong men. He is never a victim of his circumstances but the architect of his destiny. But at times he has to go through extreme struggles and tragedy which might break his determination and strength.
These motivational quotes will inspire you to gather all your strength and work for your dreams to be successful in life and protect his family under all circumstances.
Strong Man Quotes
- “I’m a strong man of faith.” – Darryl Glenn
- “A wise man, a strong man.” – German Proverb
- “Nobody picks on a strong man.” – Charles Atlas
- “Be strong. You never know who you are inspiring.”
- “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”
- “Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.” – Seneca
- “The strong man is strongest when alone.” – Friedrich Schiller
- “The will of the strong will never be shaken by doubts of the weak.”
- “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
- “The task ahead of you is never greater than the strength within you.”
- “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “My dad was a very strong man, very stubborn as well.” – Paul Pogba
- “I like a strong male, a strong man. I like strong men.” – Stacey Dash
- “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “I believe that a strong man makes a strong country.” – Jair Bolsonaro
- “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “We acquire the strength we have overcome.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” – John F. Kennedy
- “It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.” – Jodi Picoult
- “Never bend your head, always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.”
- “A sure sign of a man’s strength is how gently he loves his wife and children.”
- “A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.” – Beverly Jenkins
- “A weak man can’t love a strong woman. He won’t know what to do with her.”
- “Love makes you strong, and makes you weak. Friendship makes a man strong.”
- “Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.” – Richard Bach
- “Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” – Plato
- “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” – Reverend Phillips Brooks
- “You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” – Robin Sharma
- “These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.” – Powell Clayton
- “The strong man is not the one who can afford much, but the one who can give up a lot.”
- “Strong men will always lead, but not in the name of democracy.” – Anthony T.Hincks
- “Strong men still smile and move forward even with many obstacles in life.” – Sophieya
- “It is the weak man who urges compromise – never the strong man.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee
- “You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” – Publius Ovidius Naso
- “Fools give up fast. Strong men persevere. The wise keep going forever.” – Maxime Lagacé
- “A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- “He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.” – William Samuel Johnson
- “If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I’d say, I like who I like.” – Miuccia Prada
- “Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R Tolkien
- “A strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for others.” – Ben, Barnyard
- “Be strong when you are weak, brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious.”
- “Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.”
- “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” – Cayla Mills
- “Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.” – James Frey
- “For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.” – Rudyard Kipling
- “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie ten Boom
- “I am a strong man, I am always looking forward and this is my main thing.” – Abdoulaye Doucoure
- “Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “You are never given anything in this world that you can’t handle. Be strong and just keep moving forward.”
- “A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “He’s like a quiet strength. He’s a strong man, when you get him, you get his best.” – Dennis Washington
- “I’m a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.” – Dusty Baker
- “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” – Robert Tew
- “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley
- “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur
- “Difficult times produce strong men and women. Keep on your struggle to achieve your dreams!” – Avijeet Das
- “Being strong doesn’t mean you’ll never get hurt. It means even when you get hurt, you’ll never let it defeat you.”
- “Strength isn’t about how much you can handle before you break, it’s about how much you can handle after you break.”
- “I have an amazing husband who is a strong man of God. He is very dedicated to me and our family.” – Kim Fields
- “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen
- “You can be strong as any boy if you’ll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.” – Jill Lepore
- “The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.” – Tokugawa Ieyasu
- “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. Strength comes from overcoming the things you thought you couldn’t.”
- “On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.” – Ellen J. Barrier
- “Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.” – Henry Rollins
- “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” – Susan Gale
- “In Kurosawa’s films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.” – Claire Denis
- “A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem.”
- “The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.”
- “When something bad happens, you have three choices: You can either let it define you, let it destroy you or let it strengthen you.”
- “Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.” – Anthony Browne
- “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” – Vernon Howard
- “To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great? ” –Ayn Rand
- “The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.” – Woodrow Wilson
- “My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down.” – Bob Moore
- “What’s rare is to have a good, strong man, as opposed to a good, weak man. Those are the ones who ruin the world.” – Sara Raasch
- “The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers
- “A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.” – Andre Maurois
- “Strong men, men who are truly role models, don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.” – Michelle Obama
- “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A. A. Milne
- “The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “The strong man is not the good wrestler; The strong man is only the one who controls himself when he is angry.” – Prophet Muhammad
- “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John C. Maxwell
- “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
- “Most women want a man who’s already successful. A strong woman will be part of his struggle, survive it, succeed together and build an empire.”
- “The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.” – Ellen J. Barrier
- “Strength isn’t about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.” – Jenny Trout
- “It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.” – Ellen G. White
- “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Anyone can give up; it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, that’s true strength.” – Chris Bradford
- “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” – Orison Swett Marden
- “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.” – Rita Mero
- “A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in the world. I think it’s important to show that even under all this strength there’s a fragile side that can be affected.” – Sylvester Stallone
- “Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable than a brick without a flaw.” – William J. H. Boetcker
- “A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.” – Wole Soyinka
- “A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.” – Orison Swett Marden
- “The strongest people are people who faced the toughest situations in life. People who are defeated by the toughest battles are stronger than those who have won by using the escape route!” – Israelmore Ayivor
- “The morality of compromise sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat, strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.” – Andrew Carnegie
- “He needed to be strong and shut his feeling down, if he was to be a ‘real’ man. That’s what they taught him the toughest battle he’d fight would be in trying to learn how to open his heart up to the woman he loved.” – John Mark Green
- “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
- “I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it.” – Nick Cannon
- “Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases ‘biggest in the world,’ ‘finest in the world,’ are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is a strong man, they will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the ‘biggest scoundrels’ in the world.” – Isabella Bird
- “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
- “My father never was and isn’t a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that’s a great example for a man, a strong man, a man’s man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.” – Maria Shriver
- “Vampires are so old that they don’t need to impress anyone anymore. They’re comfortable in their own skin. It’s this enigmatic strength that’s very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who’s going to look after his woman.” – Stephen Moyer
- “People appreciate a confident man. They love a strong man, and when it comes to a woman, I don’t know if people just expect women not to speak up for themselves or be weak or just always be the follow-behind, but I’m proud that I’m in a generation of leaders. I’m proud that I’m surrounded by very strong women.” – LeToya Luckett
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