Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Don't be a hero, young man. There's no percentage in it.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

But no man's a hero to himself.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.