Barbara Taylor Bradford Quotes

Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.

I want greatness.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

It's what kings do. If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.

I'm the one that everyone is trying to beat.

You want to play against the best and beat the best.

I love competing. I am so competitive. I definitely need to win because I hate losing. I am the type who if I know I will lose I won't compete.