Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Kaspar Lavater

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

John C. Maxwell

I've never known a person focused on yesterday to have a better tomorrow.

Ellen Goodman

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

LaToya Jackson

It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow. And growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day. And that's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"

Terry Goodkind

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.

Shunryu Suzuki

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment

Marcus Aurelius

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Peter Brook

I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards.

Konrad Adenauer

What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday?

Henry Hazlitt

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.

Henepola Gunaratana

No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.

Mordecai Richler

I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads. Or, put another way, providing you are prepared to wait it out, what was adjudged bad for you yesterday is likely to prove beneficial today.

Marcel Proust

My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

Jose Saramago

Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

Jorge Luis Borges

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

Lee Child

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

John Updike

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

John Shelby Spong

If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

Tatyana Tolstaya

For us, the best time is always yesterday.

Tony Robbins

Make it so today is not like yesterday and tomorrow will be different FOREVER.

Peter Drucker

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

Peter Drucker

Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.

Peter Drucker

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.

Peggy Noonan

The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today.

Megan McCafferty

Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow

Jon Stewart

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

Kate Atkinson

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

Justin Timberlake

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

Peter Warlock

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

Peter Warlock

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written

Pete Townshend

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.