Jordan Peterson on Stoicism Quotes

"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today."

"You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price."

"If you have a 'why' to live, you can bear almost any 'how'."

"Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient."

"Truth is the only thing that doesn't crumble under pressure."

"Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world."

"If you're not going to stand up for yourself, you're not going to be able to stand up for anyone else."

"You should be a monster, an absolute monster, and then learn how to control it."

"Discipline is the only thing that can keep you from being a slave to your own impulses."

"Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't."

"If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self."

"Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens."

"Face the demands of life voluntarily."

"You have to sacrifice the person you are for the person you could become."

"You must determine where you are going, so that you can bargain with your self-interest."

"In the face of the tragedy of life, you have to be the person at your father's funeral that everyone can lean on."

"To learn is to die a little bit and be reborn."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something else is more important than fear."

"Be grateful in spite of your suffering."

"The way that you make yourself safe is by making yourself dangerous and then learning how to control that."

"If you fulfill your obligations everyday, you don't need to worry about the future."

"Life is suffering. That's clear. There is no more basic, irrefutable truth."

"Pick up your damn cross and walk up the hill."

"Don't hide unwanted things in the fog."

"Act so that you can tell the truth about how you act."

"You are stronger than you think. And you're also more damaged than you think."

"You are not everything you could be, and you know it."

"Stop doing the things that you know to be wrong."

"The truth is a bedrock for which you can build a foundation that won't wash away in the storm."

"If you can't even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?"

"The secret to your existence is right in front of you, and it manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but you're avoiding."

"Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping."

"Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated."