Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Maxwell

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

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

Jimi Hendrix

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.

John Dewey

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

Garrison Keillor

As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.

Franklin Graham

God’s word is the same, yesterday and today and a million years from now.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

Eknath Easwaran

I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether I keep up with Tom Jones or anybody else; what is important is to keep up with myself by making my today a little better than my yesterday.

Jimmy Fallon

President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.

John Bunyan

The same yesterday, today, and forever.

Joan Armatrading

Yesterday I was playing Beethovens fifth, because I love that.

Louise Hay

Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?

Leo Tolstoy

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before...

Joyce Meyer

Freedom is not letting your yesterday affect your today.

Karl Shapiro

Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.

John Legend

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

Jimmy Dean

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

Jimmy Buffett

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Jim Rohn

If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

Ellen Hopkins

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

Joyce Meyer

Don't miss out on today by living in yesterday.

Joseph Conrad

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

Leonard Cohen

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

Gayle Forman

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Ludwig Feuerbach

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion.

Lorenzo Snow

It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday

Lorenzo Snow

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

Kacy Catanzaro

I've learned that you should only try to be better than who you were yesterday.

Junipero Serra

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

Judy Holliday

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.