Quotes about Hero
It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal --carries the cross of the redeemer--not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.
— Joseph Campbell
Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Hero is not fed on sweets Daily his own heart he eats
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The public hero is sensitive to the needs of his time.
— Joseph Campbell
For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.
— Washington Irving
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
— Stephen Hawking
My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
— Kamala Harris
The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
— Joseph Campbell