151 Yesterday Quotes

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Famous Yesterday Quotes

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery — Justin Timberlake

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. - Kahlil Gibran

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. — Kahlil Gibran

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. — Indian Proverbs

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow — Mahatma Gandhi

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. — Mother Teresa

Light tomorrow with today! - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Light tomorrow with today! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. — Bil Keane

Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today. - Carroll Shelby

Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today. — Carroll Shelby

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. — Nick Saban

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. - Robert H. Schuller

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. — Robert H. Schuller

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. - Lewis Carroll

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. — Lewis Carroll

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. — Dalai Lama

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday. — Gladys Taber

Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today. — Proverbs

If tomorrow comes, I will tell tomorrow, ‘I’ve already done it yesterday’. — Mahatria Ra

Short Yesterday Quotes

  • Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. — Dale Carnegie
  • Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. — Rumi
  • Smile and let everyone know that today, you're a lot stronger than you were yesterday. — Drake
  • Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears. — Tyga
  • Learn from yesterday, live for today. — Albert Einstein
  • You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow. — John Dewey
  • I don’t care what you did yesterday. If you’re happy with that, you have bigger problems. — Nick Saban
  • Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself. — Rick Ross
  • None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows. — Colin Powell
  • I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. — William Allen White

Yesterday Image Quotes

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. - John Dewey quote

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. — John Dewey

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - American Indian Proverbs quote

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. — American Indian Proverbs

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. - H. G. Wells quote

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. — H. G. Wells

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today. - Lewis Carroll quote

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today. — Lewis Carroll

Yesterday quote Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand. - Mos Def quote

Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand. — Mos Def

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. - Charles M. Schulz quote

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. — Charles M. Schulz

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. - David Icke quote

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. — David Icke

Yesterday quote Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - Will Rogers quote

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. — Will Rogers

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis quote

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. — Don Marquis

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness. - Kalidasa quote

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness. — Kalidasa

Yesterday quote Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it present.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it present.
I loved you yesterday. I love you still. I always have and I always will. - Tim Walters quote

I loved you yesterday. I love you still. I always have and I always will. — Tim Walters

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. - Bernadette Devlin quote

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. — Bernadette Devlin

Yesterday quote Never forget yesterday, but always live for today... Because you never know what tomorrow can bring,
Never forget yesterday, but always live for today... Because you never know what tomorrow can bring, or what it can take away...
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow. - L. Ron Hubbard quote

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow. — L. Ron Hubbard

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. - Babe Ruth quote

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. — Babe Ruth

Yesterday quote What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked god for yesterday.
What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked god for yesterday.

It Seems Like Yesterday Quotes

It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind. — Paul Ryan

For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional. — Malcolm Forbes

It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time. It brings back memories, but at the same time it's something I'll remember forever. — Sidney Crosby

Yesterday quote Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day
Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life.

It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent. — Sue Wicks

It Feels Like Yesterday Quotes

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better." — Agnes Varda

Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it. — Shania Twain

It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it. — Regina Spektor

Yesterday quote Yesterday is a history; Tomorrow a mystery; Today is a gift; That's why we call it the present
Yesterday is a history; Tomorrow a mystery; Today is a gift; That's why we call it the present

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow. — Luigi Pirandello

I've been married to my wife for 60 years but it feels just like yesterday, and you know what a bloody awful day yesterday was. — Frank Carson

I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too. — Magic Johnson

Yesterday quote The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.
The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow. — Luigi Pirandello

Yesterday And Today Quotes

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. — Groucho Marx

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after — Grace Lee Boggs

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings. — William Arthur Ward

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come. — Luke the Evangelist

When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities. — David Jeremiah

God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey. — Melanie Klein

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow. — Neale Donald Walsch

Yesterday And Tomorrow Quotes

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

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. — King Hussein I

To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history. — Christine Caine

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits. — Carl Sandburg

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. — John Wayne

Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. — Oscar Wilde

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present. — Deepak Chopra

If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough. — David A. Bednar

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson

Only Yesterday Quotes

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. — John Newton

The only competition you have is the person you were yesterday. — MrBeast

I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it. — Ace Frehley

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday — Jonathan Swift

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. — Kahlil Gibran

The time you spend comparing yourself to others is much better spent investing in yourself. The only comparison worth making is to you from yesterday. — Sahil Bloom

God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles? — Frederick Lenz

Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. — Kim Lyons

I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment. — Richey Edwards

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

Yesterday Is Gone Quotes

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. — Horace Mann

I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time. — Willie Nelson

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. — Rumi

Past is gone, present is going, and tomorrow is day after tomorrow’s yesterday. So why worry about anything? God is in all this. — R.K. Narayan

Never look back on something bad, yesterday is gone, today is now, tomorrow doesn't exist. — Shannon Leto

A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that - every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart. — Mother Teresa

Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t ‘should’ve’ done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day! — Steve Maraboli

As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things. — Rumi

Better Than Yesterday Quotes

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work. — Jim Harbaugh

May today be better than yesterday, but not as good as tomorrow — Irish Proverbs

Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today. — Lorenzo Snow

I have to compete against myself to be better than who I was yesterday. — Nirmal Purja

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon! — Edie Brickell

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday! — Pat Riley

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. — Karl Lagerfeld

Be your biggest competitor - challenge yourself each day to be better than you were yesterday. — Kaoru

You must start investing as early as possible. Yesterday was better than today, and today is better than tomorrow. Don’t wait for a significant market drop. — Naved Abdali

I am better than I was yesterday but not as good as I will be tomorrow. — Anonymous

Yesterday Is History Quotes

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. — Bil Keane

Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery. — T. B. Joshua

I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be. — Vanilla Ice

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. — Brian Dyson

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. — Gene Simmons

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it. — Howard Zinn

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present. — Alice Morse Earle

Yesterday is history, but if you don't learn from your past mistakes you will continue to make the same mistakes. Tomorrow isn't a mystery. Go after your goals with every breathe you take, and the future is far from being a mystery. Today isn't a gift. You have to earn it every day. — Steve Kaufman

Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence. — Nina Berberova

Forget Yesterday Quotes

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be. — Studs Terkel

Yesterday does not equal tomorrow. Forget the past and move towards your goals. — Tony Robbins

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. — Carl Sandburg

So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday! — Abigail Van Buren

We must never forget that today's legendary achievements-awesome as they may seem-were yesterday's risky adventures. Courage is not the capacity never to be afraid; as Karl Barth reminds us, "Courage is fear that has said its prayers." — John Claypool

Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater". — David Letterman

One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve. — Amy Dickinson

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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More Yesterday Quotes

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground. — Rosa Parks

If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday. — Steve Maraboli

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon. — Adrian Rogers

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present — Mahatma Gandhi

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