Ronald Reagan Quotes

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

I want to talk more about the future than the past.

It is not enough to look backwards with pride, justified as that pride may be. We must look forward with hope and confidence, too.

We appreciate yesterday, but we're looking for a better tomorrow.

The youth is the hope of our future.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

[Addressing Thomas Jefferson:] Your taste is judicious in liking better the dreams of the future than the history of the past.

America Was Promises

We must not continue to dwell in the past and we must resolve to do the right and march along with the rest of the world.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

I'd rather look to the future than to the past.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

I try and move with the times. If I stop and begin thinking about the past there will be a problem.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

I'm tired of talking about where we've been. I'm more interested in talking about where we're going.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

We can no longer dwell on the divisive politics of the past but must focus on Georgia's bright and promising future.

We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.

Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and by changing our nation's future.

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow.

Our past is not our potential.