The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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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 should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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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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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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