Common Quote by Joseph Campbell

“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive…

— Joseph Campbell

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there…

— Thomas Carlyle

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

— Christopher Reeve

There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff…

— Henry David Thoreau

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

— Tom Hanks

“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate humankind to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you…

— J.H. Wyman

The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost,…

— Joseph Campbell

The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and,…

— Stan Lee

Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by…

— Werner Erhard

In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to…

— Jeanette Winterson

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

— Sigmund Freud