“The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory.”
This quote has no known author and is recorded as an anonymous proverb.
About this quote
The line comes from a play about two men who each want the same woman and are obliged to fight for her, and Corneille makes it the point where the hero chooses to be held to a strict standard of honour. It is the classic European statement of the idea that difficulty is what gives an achievement its scale.