Bill Maher Quotes

I'm pretty gritty.

I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it

I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.

Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

One thing I don't do is quit.

My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time.

In Mexico, we call it 'terco': the guy who goes out every day, and every day they tell him no, and the next day he's there, and the next day he's there. That's the kind of people who make movies in Mexico.

I'm not going to throw in the towel a moment earlier than I think I have to.

Hard work is the only way to success. You have to be tough, stay tough.