You can’t go backward in life. — Jordan Peterson

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

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming. — Jordan Peterson

He whose life has a why can bear almost any how. — 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

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering. — Jordan Peterson

Face the demands of life voluntarily. Respond to a challenge, instead of bracing for catastrophe. — Jordan Peterson

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

It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve. — Jordan B

It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. — Jordan Peterson

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue? — 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

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

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious. — 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

The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things. — Jordan B

Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn. — Jordan Peterson

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it. — Jordan Peterson

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over. — Jordan Peterson

What you aim at determines what you see. — Jordan B

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 B

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. — Jordan Peterson

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly. — Jordan Peterson

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women! — Jordan Peterson

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80–hour–a–week high–powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio–economic status more than women. — 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

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you. — Jordan Peterson

You’re not everything you could be, and you know it. — Jordan Peterson

Everything isn’t political. — 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

Dialogue is the pathway to truth. — Jordan Peterson

It’s better to do something badly than to not do it at all. — 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