Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Maria Mitchell

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

Matthew McConaughey

Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday.

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

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.

Umberto Eco

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

Ozwald Boateng

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

Otis Blackwell

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now ...

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.

Victor Hugo

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

Robert Frost

Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow....

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.

Steve Zahn

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

Robert Jordan

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

Roddy McDowall

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

Warren Buffett

I have got this letter which actually goes out the day after I die. It has already been written. And it says that: "Yesterday I died". And then it says: "That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you, the shareholders of Berkshire". And then I go on and explain what is going to happen. I know that is one time when they will be really interested in hearing from me.

Walter de La Mare

Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday.

Salman Rushdie

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

Tyga

Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears.

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.