...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.

Brad Meltzer
About This Quote

The speaker of "The Greatest Glory in Living" wants to emphasize that people are who they are only when they have a chance to prove themselves. The greatest glory lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.

Source: The Inner Circle

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