The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
JORDAN PETERSONWhen the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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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.
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We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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