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Hero Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
- When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
- The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to…
- What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of…
- The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
- The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
- Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the…
- The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in…
- A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory…
- Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
- A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of…
- Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake…
- There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in…
- The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
- The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
- For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us...
- How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is…
- But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that…
- Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known;…
- When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for…
- You are the Hero of your own Story.
- The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available…
- The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come…
- And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the…
More Hero Quotes
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm bad at picking heroes. — Margaret Atwood
- No hero is mortal till he dies. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. — Kevin Bacon
- If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
- Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth
- As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural… — John Adams
- Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and… — Joe Barton
- Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- What is a society without a heroic dimension? — Jean Baudrillard
- Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool. — Felix Baumgartner