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 PETERSONI’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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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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What you aim at determines what you see.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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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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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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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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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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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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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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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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