Joseph Campbell Quotes

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

Each individual's way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start following somebody else, you become a carbon copy. You become an imitation.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.

Follow no path. Make your own.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

Each of us will figure out our own way.

A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

I don't want to follow in anyone's footsteps. I want to follow my own path and do something unique.

I always wanted to beat my own path.

I love to have my own story, my own path, and forge ahead because my career isn't going to be like anyone else's.

I want to follow my path.

You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path. You have to take what appeals to you and leave all the rest.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.

Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.