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“Listen, it is absolutely clear the economy is not doing fine. That's the reason I had a press conference. That's why I spent yesterday, the day before yesterday, this past week, this past month, and this past year talking about how we can make the economy stronger. The economy is not doing fine.”
Barack Obama (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is enough: through the trouble and tangle From yesterday's dawning to yesterday's night I sought through the vales where the prisoned winds wrangle, Till, wearied and bleeding, at end of the light I met him, and we wrestled, and great was my might.”
William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One often hears: that is good but it belongs to yesterday. But I say: yesterday has not yet been born. It has not yet really existed. I want Ovid, Pushkin, and Catullus to live once more, and I am not satisfied with the historical Ovid, Pushkin, and Catullus.”
Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.”
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in National Observer (Silver Spring, Maryland, March 1, 1965).
“Our road is the Road of Yesterday and the Road of Today, for Yesterday and Today are still the same.”
Daisy Bates (author) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eucla Notebooks, 1913. Quoted in Elizabeth Salter, Daisy Bates (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1971) ch. 19
“I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours.”
John Buchan (1875–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’re not trying to create a space that’s like how the world works. I’ve just learned time after time that when you allow a young person to actually make decisions about what is best for them, oftentimes in the long run, it actually is best for them. They know a lot about their daily lives. I only see them for four to five hours a week. Who am I to tell them what to do in those four to five hours?”
Nikkita Oliver (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If tomorrow never comes, Will she know how much I loved her? Did I try in every way to show her every day That she's my only one? And if my time on earth were through, And she must face the world without me, Is the love I gave her in the past Gonna be enough to last? If tomorrow never comes.”
Garth Brooks (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My season starts tomorrow, I am a much more relaxed person than I used to be and I know that from tomorrow and until Athens you will see a great El Guerrouj. I usually tend to improve my form as the season advances so by the time the Olympics come around I should be at the peak.”
Hicham El Guerrouj (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Upon the sunny grass-plot stood the dial, Whose measured time strange contrast with ours made : Ah ! was it omen of life's after trial, That even then the hours were told in shade, In the old, old times, The dear old times ?”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) first seen 1837 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1837 3) (Vol 51) The Old Times
“If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Taste of the Age," The Saturday Evening Post (26 July 1958), p. 290
“I know of families where children go into a room like that after breakfast, sit down and breathe ten times, in-out-one, in-out-two, in-out-three, ten times, and then they go to school. This is a very beautiful practice. If your child doesn't wish to breathe ten times, how about three times? Beginning the day with being a Buddha is a very nice way to start the day.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At times I supported the sky, at times the earth; At times I turned into a dragon, at times to a snake. I wandered at will through the cycles of life and of death. All the fathers of our faith I took into my mouth. I give as I will and I take as I will. I slash the leopard with my teeth; My spirit smashes mountains.”
Shumpo Soki (1409–1496) said by 1496 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
“There were times when I carried an adventurous spirit within me, there were times of pain, there were times of joy, and, at other times, a great sadness engulfed me.”
Amina Cachalia (1930–2013) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-03-11-amina-cachalia-the-poetry-of-her-hope-and-history/ dailymaverick (March11,2013).
“I don't know where I am. At times I plunge to the bottom of the sea, at times, rise up like the Sun.At times, the universe is pregnant by me, at times I give birth to it.”
Shahram Shiva wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've seen a lot of those good times, dark times, good times, super dark times and a lot of people don't make it out, he almost did, didn't he, because he got out I'm just super happy that he broke the line of trauma.”
Yassi Pressman (born 1995) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yassi Pressman on boyfriend Luigi Villafuerte: 'Best relationship I ever had in my life', MJ Felipe, ABS-CBN News 24 November 2025.
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We did not ask him for money yesterday; we shall not ask him tomorrow. But today is our day; we have climbed the iroko tree and would be foolish not to take down all the firewood we need.”
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wonder at him who shows haughtiness and vainglory, while he was as a sperm yesterday and will be a carrion tomorrow.”
Ali Zayn al-Abidin (659–713) said by 713 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On destiny - "The Shock Of Reality" All Africa (August 24 2009)
“Those who created yesterday’s pain cannot control tomorrow’s potential.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a special Christmas message - "Choose The Path Of A Champion" Ghana Web (December 25 2010)
“Yesterday's kook book becomes tomorrow's standard text. (2:495)”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can all fight the battles of just one day. It is when we add the burdens of two uncontrollable days, yesterday and tomorrow, that we get overwhelmed.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow!”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Forget yesterday — it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow — you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift — today.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being attached to the problems of yesterday or the insecurities of tomorrow will destroy your today.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the colours look brighter now. Everything they say seems to sound new. Slipping into tomorrow too quick, Yesterday always too good to forget. Stop the swing of the pendulum! Let us through!”
“A memory of yesterday’s pleasures, a fear of tomorrow’s dangers, a straw under my knee, a noise in mine ear, a light in mine eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayer. So certainly is there nothing, nothing in spiritual things, perfect in this world.”
John Donne (1572–1631) first seen 1626 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No. 80, preached at the funeral of Sir William Cokayne, 12 December 1626
“Yesterday's just a memory; tomorrow's never what it's supposed to be.”
“I want you to know that for half a century, American Presidents have longed to make such decisions and say such words. But even in the midst of celebration, we must keep caution as a friend. For the world is still a dangerous place. Only the dead have seen the end of conflict. And though yesterday's challenges are behind us, tomorrow's are being born.”
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows. We may pull apart the petals of a rose or make chemical analysis of its perfume, but the mystic beauty of its form and odor is still a secret, locked in to where we have no keys.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Incidentals (1904)
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Gerald "Ching" Tyrrell, (11 November 1956), p. 28
“We think, I’m not a fool today. I’ve learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No Particular Night or Morning (1951)
“Never Do Yesterday What Should Be Done Tomorrow.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential — small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.”
Nicholas Negroponte (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And so to those of you who may be vitalists I would make this prophecy: what everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow.”
Francis Crick (1916–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. … Even if you kill an enemy, if it is not based on what you have learned it is not the true Way.”
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) said by 1645 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Creation Of Human Ability (1954).
“We will not meet the problems of tomorrow by talking about yesterday's concepts.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 310
“Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.”
Peter Drucker (1909–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.”
Peter Drucker (1909–2005) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Innovations and Entrepreneurship (1985)
“Here where I lie is the hot pit Crowding on the mind with coal And the will turned against it Only drills new seams of darkness Through the dark-surrounding whole. Our vivid suns of happiness Withered from summer, drop their flowers; Hands of the longed, withheld tomorrow Fold on the hands of yesterday In double sorrow.”
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday’s underdog is tomorrow’s tyrant.”
Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today, filled with nostalgia and fear of the future.”
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of all the forces, love is the strangest. ... Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a man under the weight of a feather. Or it just lets everything go on as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. That's the kind of force love is.”
Martin Amis (1949–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday's monomaniac is tomorrow's messiah…”
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source