Jordan B. Peterson

If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly. Nothing can get in your way.

Aim at something. Discipline yourself. Or suffer the consequences of your chaos.

You need to be competent and dangerous.

The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power.

The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.

You're going to pay a price for every thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

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

You must sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

The ability to articulate is the most dangerous thing you can possess.

If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Writing is thinking formalized. You gain the ability to think by first learning to write very, very carefully. Then, when you can write effectively, you can do anything you want, and no one will stop you.

Don’t underestimate the hole your absence would leave.

Do you know how I stopped getting protesters to my event at universities? I held them in the morning.

The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.

Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder.

That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

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.

If you want to know something about yourself, sit on your bed one night and say, “What’s one thing I’m doing wrong, that I know I’m doing wrong, that I could fix, that I would fix?”

If people aren't listing to you, stop talking to them.

When you have something to say, silence is a lie.

If you really want to piss people off, you can do two things: Attain some happiness or tell the truth.