Nile Rodgers Quotes

I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.

When I see what I want, I do it.

I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

I've always been very driven and knew that to get where I wanted to go, I could never give up.

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

I love the challenge of the game. I love the work. My goal right now is to have a season next year that will make people forget about this one. I'll use things like this for motivation. I'm pumped. I'm hungry.

I have a very distinct goal all the time that I'm working toward, and I love the way it makes me live.

I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.

I love going after what I want and not stopping till I get it.

I guess I would use one word to describe myself: determined.

I'm a go-getter. It's in my DNA. If I spend a lot of time lamenting on the difficulties, then it could be distracting.

I'm the type of person that doesn't quit. I just keep going and give my best effort because I don't want to look back on my life when I'm, like, 80 or 90 and say, 'Man, I wish I would have done this, I wish I would have done that.' I basically go out and do it.

I'm a go-getter. Everything I say I'm going to do, I don't stop until I do it.

If I am in it, I want to win it. I am not here to look pretty.

I always told myself never to have a plan B - I feel like that's also one of the reasons I'm doing what I'm doing now, because I just never really rested until I got here.

I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined. So, if I set my mind on something, I definitely stop at no end to find within myself the power to keep going, whether that involves thinking of a new approach to a problem, or physically challenging myself.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.