Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.