Quotes About Hero's Journey

#1. 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 dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

Joseph Campbell

#2. I guess that's the thing about a hero's journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to. I had changed.

Kami Garcia

#3. It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and the aftermath of Vietnam in the '60s to have an upbeat, hopeful, cartoonish tale of a hero's journey. I think those explanations are easy to offer and almost always wrong.

Cass Sunstein

#4. Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.

Kevin Allen

#5. Love is a hero's journey, and the hero's journey is a noble but difficult path.

Marianne Williamson

#6. We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what a hero could be and what the hero's journey as a human being is all about. But unfortunately, I think sometimes those stories too can be very prohibitive and confining.

Chris Pine

#7. Don't think of what's being said, but of what's talking. Malice? Ignorance? Pride? Love? The goal of the hero's journey is yourself, finding yourself.

Joseph Campbell

#8. If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.

John Green

#9. The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. I've been playing with this idea in my mind that the hero's journey that we're all taught as screenwriters may resonate more specifically for male protagonists and maybe even male viewers.

Jill Soloway

#11. As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Kami Garcia

#12. For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.

John Green

#13. There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navigate the uncharted territory of the mind in order to solve the mystery of their life's adventure.

Barrymore Tebbs

#15. When he graduated he'd thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero's journey, and that the world would provide him with an endless series of evils to triumph over and life lessons to learn. It took him a while to figure out that wasn't how it worked.

Lev Grossman

#16. The journey of Marco Polo is the hero's journey, one that all cultures across the globe can relate to.

John Fusco

#17. We are taught that the hero's journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today to tell you that those stories are wrong. The real hero's journey is the journey from strength to weakness.

John Green

#18. 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 his life something that was never beheld before.

Joseph Campbell

#19. What's a hero if not for its journey.

J.H. Wyman

#20. You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#21. While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit ... Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.

Valerie Estelle Frankel

#22. The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

#23. You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.

Rick Riordan

#24. As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

Don Bluth

#25. Stop grovelling and start working.

Abhijit Naskar

#26. Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.

Brandon Lee

#27. You are born to build the society, not to follow it.

Abhijit Naskar

#28. it was not the objective that made one a hero - it was the journey, the quest itself.

Morgan Rice

#29. Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.

Michael Scott

#31. Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself.

Abhijit Naskar

#32. It is difficult to understand the journey of a hero," the whisperer said.

Mark Andrew Poe

#33. Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

David Guterson

#34. Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#35. 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 will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.

J.H. Wyman

#36. Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

Joseph Campbell

#37. The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Joseph Campbell

#38. The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#39. 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 sheds its skin.

Joseph Campbell

#40. The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

Joseph Campbell

#41. It's time for you to be the hero of your own journey.

Bill Jensen

#42. It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

Alan Hirsch

#43. After you have done a great thing for a great glory, sit and think and understand the journey thereon, for a little mistake can erase a great glory!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#44. When you accept your imperfections-and still are willing to brush yourself off and start again-you can make changes ... for you are on a heroic journey of the heart. To me this is the best kind of hero. The kind of hero I strive to be.

Denise Linn

#45. Find your "self-culture" is hero's work. I liken it to the journey of a warrior who is preparing for battle. There is no violence in the battle, but there is a plan of attack and a methodology that you need to employ to complete the journey. Page 12

Victoria Lorient-Faibish

#46. The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

Phil Ochs