Joseph Campbell Quotes

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.

Honor modesty more than your life.

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I like to say I'm not a hero.

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

He will have true glory who despises it.