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.
JORDAN PETERSONWho cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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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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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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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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You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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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.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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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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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.
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There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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Worthlessness is the default condition.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with 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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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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