Vinnie Paul Quotes

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.

I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.

People like to associate you with hard times and I pride myself on coming through them more than experiencing them.

Life kicks you hard but you have to be a man to come back.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I'm going to be pretty strong until I die.

You either fall, or you fight - and I chose to fight.

Once you go through something and come out of the storm, you've been tested.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

My life I was raised to believe that you should never give in—that you should never give up.

The struggle is my life.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

That is always what I've had to do in life: to show I am capable of surviving.

In life, I'm like Molly Brown. I've had tough times along the way and gone through experiences that many women have gone through. But I ain't down yet.