Jordan Peterson
Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto
28 quotes.
Quotes by Jordan Peterson
- A true friend is someone who tells you the truth.
- Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
- Here's how you can tell someone is your friend: A) You can tell them bad news, and they'll listen. B) You can tell them good news, and they'll help you celebrate.
- I don’t tell people they’re okay the way they are. No, I say you could be way more than you are.
- If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly, nothing can get in your way.
- If you can't even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?
- It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world — a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one — is to fix yourself.
- Life isn’t supposed to be happy or fair. Life is supposed to be meaningful.
- Make friends with people who want the best for you.
- Much that is great starts small, ignorant, and useless. […] But today’s beginner is tomorrow’s master.
- Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
- Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
- Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong.
- The best way to change the world is to start by changing yourself.
- The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
- The worst decision of all is none.
- There is nothing more useful in combating the tragedy of life than to struggle with all your soul on behalf of the good.
- To decide to move forward courageously into the land of the unknown. That’s one of the secrets to a good life.
- To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.
- What would the world be like if people stopped avoiding the things they knew they should do?
- What you aim at determines what you see.
- When you don’t know what to do, tell the truth.
- You become what you repeat.
- You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
- You might be winning but you’re not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning.
- You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
- Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder.
- You’re much better off to confront your fears head on than you are to wait and let them find you.