Jordan Peterson Quotes

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

A conscientious man ought not to regard what may happen to him in this world.

I can only focus on doing what's right.

Integrity is something I strive for in every part of my life.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.