49 Most Inspiring Jordan Peterson Quotes To Achieve Success

Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and public intellectual who has recently gained prominence as a critic of radical political correctness and other cultural trends.

His most famous book, Maps of Meaning, proposed that people find meaning through the stories they tell themselves about their lives. These stories are called “myths,” and they go back to the origins of human consciousness. Peterson claimed that by understanding our myths better, we could avoid certain pitfalls in our lives that can lead to unnecessary suffering.

He rises to fame in 2017 because of his political views, which are different from those of the left-wing establishment. However, he has been labeled as one of the worst pundits by The New York Times for his thoughts on capitalism.

These inspiring quotes will motivate you to reach your personal goals and fuel your motivation.

49 Most Inspiring Jordan Peterson Quotes

“You’re not everything you could be, and you know it.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Power is competence.” ― Jordan Peterson

“If you can’t understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.” ― Jordan Peterson

“What would your life be like if you made use of all of the potential you were offered?”

“The successful among us delay gratification and bargain with the future.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Winning when you’re wrong is a really bad idea.” ― Jordan Peterson

“You might be winning but you’re not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning.” ― Jordan Peterson

“If you can say what you’re doing, you’re not producing art.” ― Jordan Peterson

“There’s absolutely no doubt you can be slightly better tomorrow than you are today.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Don’t be dependent at all. Period.” ― Jordan Peterson

“It’s better to do something badly than to not do it at all.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Can you imagine yourself in 10 years if instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actually did them every single day – that’s powerful.” ― Jordan Peterson

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Don’t be a slave to stupid rules.” ― Jordan Peterson

“If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self. When you have something to say, silence is a lie.” ― Jordan Peterson

“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.” ― Jordan Peterson

“He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.” ― Jordan Peterson

“If you’re going to be successful you need to be smart, conscientious, and tough.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Have respect for yourself. Have fear for yourself.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Stop being so compliant all the time. Rules must be tested.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.” ― Jordan Peterson

“You can do an awful lot by writing down what happened to you and thinking it through.” ― Jordan Peterson

“It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.” ― Jordan Peterson

“You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.” ― Jordan Peterson

“If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Discipline is a matter of being terrified of the right things.” ― Jordan Peterson

“You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with, and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.” ― Jordan Peterson

“The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.” ― Jordan Peterson

“The truth is something that burns, it burns off deadwood and people don’t like having their deadwood burnt off often because they’re 95% deadwood.” ― Jordan Peterson

“If you dare to do the most difficult thing you can conceptualize your life will work out better than it will if you do anything.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Dialogue is the pathway to truth.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.” ― Jordan Peterson

“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. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Can you imagine yourself in 10 years if, instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actually did them every single day? That’s powerful.” ― Jordan Peterson

“You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always equal or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.” ― Jordan Peterson

“To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated.” ― Jordan Peterson

“You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help, and be good to someone you loved and valued.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Art is like a dream. It doesn’t say what it is–it just is.” ― Jordan Peterson

“If someone is making everyone around them miserable and you’d like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.” ― Jordan Peterson

“The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.” ― Jordan Peterson

“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.” ― Jordan Peterson

“I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.” ― Jordan Peterson

“If you make bad decisions–things get worse. Not just for you.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.” ― Jordan Peterson

“Be grateful in spite of your suffering.” ― Jordan Peterson

“You have to treat yourself like you matter because if you don’t then you don’t take care of yourself and you become vengeful and cruel and you take it out on people around you and you are not a positive force. None of that is good…you suffer more and so does everyone else around you.” ― Jordan Peterson

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