79 result(s) for Jordan Peterson Quotes.
"Treat yourself as if you were someone you are responsible for helping."
"You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take."
"Don't underestimate the power of your speech. Now, that's not the same as being nice...It means you have an ethical obligation to speak your truth."
"You're not as nice as you think, and you're also much nicer than you think."
"Don't avoid something frightening if it stands in your way and it might be the very thing you need to do. The thing you're most avoiding might be the one thing that would help you the most."
"The first problem is to get people to speak and reveal themselves, let's say. And so if people are going to reveal themselves, you have to listen."
"You can only find out what you actually believe, rather than what you think you should believe, by watching how you act. You simply don't know what you believe before that."
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"Don't avoid responsibility by pinning it on someone else."
"Don't let your kids do anything that makes you hate them."
"Don't hide unwanted things in the fog."
"It is up to you to make the best of every situation."
"Ideologies make things simple, but hide the subtleties of reality."
"Putting the house in order produces genuine revitalization."
"You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do."
"Aim at the highest good."
"It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure."
"There is no faith and no courage and no sacrifice in doing what is expedient."
"Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence."
"If you fulfill your obligations every day you don't need to worry about the future."
"Belief gets in the way of learning."
"No one can name the infinite cause of courage. But courage exists nonetheless."
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"It is better to aim very high and miss than to aim low and hit."
"Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous."
"Rule 1: Stand up straight with your shoulders back."
"What you see determines what you think. What you think determines what you aim at. What you aim at determines what you do."
"Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, not remedies for ignorance."
"You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it."
"If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future."
"Aim at the good. Put your house in perfect order before you criticize the world."
"You’re more like your enemies than you think."
"If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences."
"Clean your room."
"You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price."
"Do not hide unwanted things in the fog."
"Have some humility. If you cannot bring peace to your household, how dare you try to rule a city?"
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"Sorting yourself out is not a selfish act. Far from it. It's a wise act."
"It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons."
"If you don't say what you think, then you kill your unborn self."
"Make friends with people who want the best for you."
"You're more powerful than you think."
"Don't let your kids do anything that makes you dislike them."
"Life is suffering. Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated."
"You're not peaceful by default. You have to work really hard to get peaceful."
"Treat yourself as someone you are responsible for helping."
"To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open."
"Sort yourself out, bucko!"
"What you aim at determines what you see."
"Don't let your children do anything that makes you dislike them."
"You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it."
"Tell the truth. Or, at least, don't lie."
"You're weak. That's not good. You need to do something about it and you can."
"Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them."
"Don't hide baby bunnies in your own house. You're not going to like what they do all over the house."
"You should take care of, help, and be good company for yourself the same way you would for someone you loved and valued."
"Life is suffering. How do you deal with that? Adaptation."
"Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)."
"You should choose your sacrifices and your rewards yourself."
"In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures. That leaves a hole, a lack of shared values."
"You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that hurt you."
"Stand up straight with your shoulders back."
"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today."
"Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world."
"Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping."
"Tell the truth, or at least don't lie."
"Make at least one thing better every single place you go."
"Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient."
"Do not do what you hate."
"Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't."
"To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open."
"It is far better to render Beethoven in the most competent manner you can manage than it is to deeply inadequately be Beethoven."
"You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price."
"You might get away with dancing with the devil, but you won't get away with a clip around the ear from reality."
"The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it."
"Stop doing the things that you know are wrong, because you could start doing the things that you know are right."
"The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future."
"You’re going to face things in your life that you are in absolutely no way prepared for because you’re a fragile, damaged, limited entity."
"The true pathway to success is a trajectory defined by integrity."
"If you have an ideal, you can know where you are in relationship to that ideal, and you can know where you are in relationship to that ideal across time."
"Don't underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities."
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