quotations about yesterday
Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow,
And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
JOHN DONNE
"An Anatomy of the World", The Complete English Poems
Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
SAMUEL BECKETT
"Proust", Samuel Beckett: Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism
What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you ...
JAMES A. MURPHY
The Waves of Life: Quotes and Daily Meditations
You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
The man who wastes today lamenting yesterday will waste tomorrow lamenting today.
PHILIP BASKIN
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
There is no place for nostalgia in a progressive world. The new school not only ignores nostalgia, but condemns it. The world of yesterday is becoming an isolated world of remembrances and echoes so forbidden that, to decorate the present with it, you must often do so with a sense of humor or belong to a select group.
ERIC SLOANE
postscript, American Yesterday
Don't let your yesterday ruin your today. Don't let your last loss beat you again.
ANONYMOUS
Tomorrows come unnoticed. Todays slip by unheeded. More and more you become a creature of Yesterdays.
FRANK CRANE
"Yesterday"
God is always in the process of restoring. Your yesterday isn't your today.
TYRONE GREEN
"There's a lot of love at Hearts Delight", Fauquier Times, February 16, 2017
And I'll take with me the memories
To be my sunshine after the rain
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.
JASON MRAZ
"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday", Yes!
Once I was called Tomorrow, and was virgin pure; then I became your bride and was named Today; now I am Yesterday, and carry upon me the eternal stain of your embrace.
FRANK CRANE
"Yesterday", Four Minute Essays
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
PEGGY WALL
"King News", The Stokes News, February 21, 2017
Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin.
MOTHER TERESA
attributed, Summer of Yesterday
Yesterday comes too late.
T. WEAVER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Oh the yesterdays of life!
How with joys their hours were rife!
Joys that flew too quick away,
On the wings of yesterday.
LAURA ANN WHITMORE
"Yesterday", Aurora and Other Poems
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
ANONYMOUS
bumper sticker
Pile up enough tomorrows and you'll end up with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
ANONYMOUS
Yesterday is gone and it will never be again. Today is living and breathing. Today is bright and new.
JONATHAN TEMPLE
Just a Closer Walk
Yesterday has a wealth of information for all of us if only we would take the time to explore and examine its contents.
JOSEPH J. TREVINO
I Remember Yesterday
Confidence is a direct reflection of past performance. Hence, yesterday is more important than today. Luckily, today is tomorrow's yesterday. So, even if your confidence today isn't optimal, your confidence tomorrow is still within your control.
BENJAMIN HARDY
"The 2 mental shifts highly successful people make", CNBC, March 13, 2017