The best Quotes by Joseph Campbell

The best Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life Letting go

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Happiness Motivation

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Talent Motivation

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Heros Veterans Day

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The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.

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I grew up in Hawaii. My love of the natural world began here.

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Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

Hawaii is the only place I know where they lay flowers on you while you are alive.

Will Rogers

I have always been proud to have been born in Hawaii.

Barack Obama

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

William McKinley

Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza. First the Hawaiians, and now you.

Wut in Inside Out

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In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

Duane Chapman

Well, that, and a little medical boondoggle I have to go to in Cleveland. And by medical boondoggle I mean golf-weekend. And by Cleveland I mean Hawaii. Anyway, I have to go catch my bus to the airport. And by bus I mean helicopter.

Bob Kelso in Scrubs - Season 2 Episode 19

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They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Hawaii - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

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Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

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Work Motivation

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

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Motivation Borders

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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Change Motivation Minutes

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries

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Ideas Motivation

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

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Courage Risk Motivation

Computers may out-think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are.

Elvis Presley

Computer Artificial Intelligence

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Tom Clancy in The Hunt for Red October

Computer Artificial Intelligence

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

Mister Spock in Star Trek - Season 2 Episode 24

Computer Artificial Intelligence

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

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Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

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Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

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Life Death Suicide

Sometimes, we think we're strong for holding on. But true strength lies in letting go.

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Change Farewell & Goodbye Letting go

If you want to fly, you have to let go what pulls you down.

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Ambition Flying Letting go

Believe! The more we let go, the higher we fly.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

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That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Happiness Revenge

The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair ot not, they just get on with it.

Andrew Matthews

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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Joanne K. Rowling

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People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Frank Sinatra

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Happiness Self-Confidence Talent

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

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A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

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Heart Heros Size

You don't need to be a superhero to get the girl. The right girl will bring out the hero in you.

Wade Wilson in Deadpool

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It's about the day I realised, that admitting we're not heroic, is when we're the most heroic of all.

J.D. in Scrubs - Season 1 Episode 23

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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

War Veterans Day Fighting

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

Charles B. Rangel

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

Veterans Day Armed Forces Day

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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