Peter Thiel Quotes

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

God helps those who help themselves.

God helps those who help themselves.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

Whatever I do, I like to be the one doing it. I don't just like to get someone in to run it and put a name to it.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.

I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.

I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the next project.

If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Either you are creating your life or the circumstances are.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.