Jordan Peterson on Stoicism Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Face the demands of life voluntarily."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Be grateful in spite of your suffering."

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

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

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