Johnny Van Zant Quotes

Everybody has losses, and sometimes they're worse than others, but you can always bounce back.

It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

Injuries make you stronger.

I'm a survivor.

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.