Peter Lynch Quotes

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

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

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

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.

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

Your future starts today. Don’t go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility.

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

The rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Every moment wasted looking back prevents us from moving forward.

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

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.