Stand up straight with your shoulders back.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie.
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.
What you aim at determines what you see.
You have to have a problem to be annoyed.
The successful among us delay gratification.
You’re not as nice as you think.
Do not sacrifice who you could be for who you are.
To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life.
Desires and emotions dictate behavior, but they must be guided by reason.
Believe that questioning the world, and yourself, is a moral obligation.
The way you justify not facing your dragons is by exaggerating the risks they pose.
To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that’s what the religious and the mythic stories say.
If you dare to make mistakes and inconvenience yourself, you bring that spirit to life.
To learn is to die voluntarily and to be born again, in great ways and small.
Life is suffering, but that doesn’t mean it’s only suffering.
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.
Jordan Peterson Quotes part 2
The purpose of life is to reduce suffering.
You must let go of whatever it was that happened and live in the present.
Learn how to suffer nobly.
To suffer is to learn.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
If you cannot understand that you are disposed to error, then you believe that you are always right.
The way of life is a manner of speech.
Don’t underestimate the power and pervasiveness of resentment.
Don’t just aim at what you can already hit.
If you can’t think, you can’t even be equal to yourself.
If your life isn’t what it could be, try telling the truth.
The price you pay for not exercising your responsibility is that you suffer.
You should discipline your children while they’re small, or you’ll regret it.
You don’t get to choose not to pay a price; you only get to choose which price you pay.
There’s nothing that ever counts as knowledge that can’t be used to protect yourself and the people you love.
The idea that something so useful could be real might be just too terrifying to contemplate.
People do not live happy lives, generally, because they are preoccupied with their suffering.
If you diminish your responsibility, you are a tyrant and a murderous slave.
The truthful person aims for the highest good. That includes speaking the truth.
You have to sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
You can’t reform the world unless you have learned how to clean up your own room.
How can you change the world if you can’t even clean up your own life?
What you aim at determines what you see. Keep that in mind.
Don’t demonize what you don’t understand.
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