90 result(s) for Quotes By Jordan Peterson.
"Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes."
"How could I be the wisest person I could become?"
"Don't let your kids do anything that makes you not like them."
"A good person sees someone who needs help and helps."
"There are plenty of jobs in the world that are inherently repugnant. It's harder to find something more meaningful."
"Don't avoid necessary conflicts."
"You're not peaceful. If you were peaceful, you'd be able to speak your words."
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"If you fulfill your obligations every day, you don't need to worry about the future."
"You don't get to choose not to pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take."
"You have to be disciplined and prioritize what you do, so you can order your day and effectively and efficiently deal with the tasks at hand."
"You're going to dare to ask for something, from yourself, and other people."
"Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong."
"The proper way to fix the world isn't to fix the world. There's no reason to assume that you're even up to such a task. But you can fix yourself."
"The most effective way to solve complex problems is to figure out how to use the time you have to make the best of what you've got."
"Don't let your traumatizing childhood harm your children. That's harder than it looks."
"You can't believe your own feelings, to begin with. That's the first thing you have to start to question."
"People need a challenge, so being safe might be dangerous."
"Tell the truth. Or, at least, don't lie."
"Sort yourself out first, put yourself together, and then maybe help your family, but first put yourself together."
"To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life."
"Do not bother children when they are skateboarding."
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"It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness."
"You need to know the worst case scenario, and you need to prepare for it."
"Don't avoid the truth - face it, even if it's difficult."
"Listen to someone as if they might know something you don't, their experience is real."
"Adopt the demeanor of someone who is taking responsibility for the world."
"If you fulfill your obligations every day you don't need to worry about the future."
"You're going to pay a price for everything you're doing and you're not doing. You don't get to choose to not pay a price."
"It is the things that people find most difficult that they discuss the least."
"Tell the truth – or, at least, don't lie."
"What you aim at determines what you see."
"Responsibility is what gives life meaning."
"Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them."
"Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)."
"People organize their brains with conversation. If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds."
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"Don't hide unwanted things in the fog."
"Aim high, adopt responsibility, be aware of deception, stand up straight, and find one good friend."
"You're more akin to an author of great worlds than you are to a creature of instinct and ability."
"You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don't know what you believe before that. You are too complex to understand yourself."
"You're not after happiness, you're after a meaningful life."
"There are entire worlds within you, waiting to be mapped."
"You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward."
"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."
"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."
"In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive."
"Don't let your kids do anything that makes you dislike them."
"Make at least one thing better every single place you go."
"Aim high, adopt responsibility, and tell the truth."
"You're more like the hero of a novel than you think."
"Wisdom is knowing what to overlook."
"Do not hide unwanted things in the fog."
"You should take care of, help, and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help, and be good to someone you loved and valued."
"You're not as nice as you think, you're not as terrible as you think."
"You need to determine where you are, so you can orient yourself properly and then work towards making things better."
"Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens."
"Life is suffering. That's clear. There is no more basic, irrefutable truth."
"Don't avoid doing what you know to be right, you'll just make yourself weak and unhappy."
"Make friends with people who want the best for you."
"Beware of malevolence disguised as morality."
"The poor are hardly poor at all in the developed world."
"It is better to do something than to do nothing."
"Stop doing what you know to be wrong. Stop today."
"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 frighten you."
"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."
"Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping."
"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."
"Stand up straight with your shoulders back."
"Tell the truth, or at least don't lie."
"Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't."
"Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient."
"To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open."
"The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it."
"It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life."
"Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned."
"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."
"In order to think you have to risk being offensive."
"The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future."
"People who don’t have meaning in their lives don’t have a low pain tolerance, they have a low capacity for responsibility."
"Don't let your children do anything that makes you dislike them."
"Aim high, adopt humility."
"Speak the truth – or, at least, don't lie."
"If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything, then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load."
"The successful people I know delay gratification."
"There are plenty of people for whom the attainment of their goals isn’t particularly good for them."
"You're going to pay a price, no matter what you do. If you stay in bed, you will pay a price."
"It's not a good solution for you to keep doing what you're doing if you're not happy with where you're at."
"It’s not a good idea to be more responsible than you should but it's a worse idea not to be as responsible as you could."
"If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self."
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