Peter Thiel Quotes

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.

I get asked all the time, What do you do differently than 10 years ago, or what will you do differently in the years to come?' In the years to come, I have no idea.

It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.

The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

It is today that we create the world of the future.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

You know, the smallest thing can change a life. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - and when you least expect it - since we’re on a course that you could have never planned, into a future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That’s the journey of our lives: our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness.

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word 'Whosoever' is a very wide and comprehensive one...My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver.

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.