Quotes by Jordan B. Peterson

You can't say no to the call to adventure. Life without adventure is deadly dull - and writing for a living is not without its adventures.

A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has it under voluntary control.

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. Nonetheless, chaos can be too much. You can't long tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity

Take responsibility for your own life. If you want to change the world, start by cleaning your room.

Don't avoid the truth to protect your feelings. The truth might hurt, but it is the key to finding inner peace.

You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement

If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.

Stand up straight with your shoulders back.

It's like, 'You have something to say? You better say it, because you're going to dwindle and disappear if you don't.'

Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.

You can say, 'Well, isn't it sad that 9/10 of our history is the history of oppression and cruelty?' It's like, 'Yeah, it is sad. But what's even sadder is that it's not 99/100.'

You should take care of, you should help, you should assist, you should support the people who are helping themselves.

The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.

If you fulfill your obligations every day you don't need to worry about the future.

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

There's some real utility in gratitude. It's also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.

The poor and stressed die early; this is one of the most dismal facts I know. That's partly why I'm a psychologist. It's the primary reason why I wrote '12 Rules for Life'.

It's better to do something badly than to not do it at all.

Don't compare yourself to others, compare yourself to who you were yesterday.

In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.

If you don't take responsibility for your life, the tendency is that other entities will try to control it.

What you aim at determines what you see.

Don't let your kids do anything that makes you dislike them.

Treat yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.

The truth is something that burns, it burns off dead wood, and people don't like having their dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95% dead wood.

You're not everything you could be, and you know it.

If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.