Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Maxwell

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

John C. Maxwell

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

Eric Hoffer

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.

Jon Bon Jovi

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

Johnny Oates

You can't do anything about yesterday and you can't do anything about tomorrow. It's just today.

Rick Ross

Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.

Tamora Pierce

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

Ron Hunter

I want everyone focused on tomorrow, not yesterday.

Stedman Graham

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

Taylor Swift

All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.

Stanley Kunitz

When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world to lose.

Stephen Colbert

Yesterday in a 25 to 24 vote, Republicans welcomed back Lott back into their leadership and named him minority whip. That is great for Trent. They say minority whip is a stepping stone to Grand Wizard.

William Saroyan

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

William J. Clinton

Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.

William J. Clinton

No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow.

William James

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.

Willard Scott

It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?

Robin Hobb

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Robert Mugabe

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

Robert E. Lee

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Richard P. Feynman

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

Richard Hofstadter

We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

Richard Baxter

That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

Thomas Sankara

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Thomas Sankara

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Thomas Sowell

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

Robert H. Schuller

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

Richard Corliss

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

William Least Heat-Moon

No yesterdays on the road.

Walter Winchell

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

We appeal, not to those who reject today in the name of a return to yesterday, not to those who are hopelessly deafened by today; we appeal to those who see the distant tomorrow -- and judge today in the name of tomorrow.

William Jennings Bryan

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

Woodrow Wilson

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.