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Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.
t. b. joshua— On destiny. "The Shock Of Reality", All Africa (August 24 2009)
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X originally Malcolm Little— African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist (1925 - 1965)
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
l. ron hubbard— The Creation Of Human Ability (1954).
If you go over desert and mountain, Far into the country of Sorrow, To-day and to-night and to-morrow, And maybe for months and for years; You shall come with a heart that is bursting For trouble and toiling and thirsting, You shall certainly come to the fountain At length, to the Fountain of Tears.
— A. W. E. O'Shaughnessy, The Fountain of Tears.
The problem with traffic is that the people of today are driving the cars of tomorrow on the roads of yesterday.
— Bob Talbert, Detroit Free Press, ca. 1987
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
lord byron— Bride of Abydos (1814) Canto II, St. 20
The actions you take today can propel you into a better position tomorrow.
steve maraboli— p. 120 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
We disagreed with Zinoviev and Kamenev because we knew that the policy of amputation was fraught with great dangers for the Party, that the method of amputation, the method of blood-letting and they demanded blood was dangerous, infectious: today you amputate one limb, tomorrow another, the day after tomorrow a third what will we have left in the Party?
joseph stalin— Speech at The Fourteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) (December 1925)
There is a maxim, 'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.' It is a maxim for sluggards. A better reading of it is, 'Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow,' because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
aaron burr— Reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67. Alternately reported as "Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done", reported in Jacob Morton Braude, The Complete Art of Public Speaking? (1970), p. 84.
I just want to say how much we are indebted to my dear and abiding friend, Harry Belafonte, and to all the distinguished and famous artists and entertainers who have taken the time out from their prestigious schedules to be with us here in Montgomery, Alabama, as we march on the state capital tomorrow morning. I know that our thanks will go out to them and will abide them for years to come.
harry belafonte— Martin Luther King, Jr., as quoted in The Black 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential African-Americans, Past and Present (1999) by Columbus Salley, p. 335
Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.
al gore— The Gore Interview by Bryan Walsh, December 19, 2007
On the face of this wide earth, Mr. President, there is not one... intelligent champion of the Union cause who does not feel... that the rebellion, if crushed tomorrow, would be renewed if slavery were left in full vigor... and that every hour of deference to slavery is an hour of added and deepened peril to the Union.
Horace Greeley— Horace Greeley, Open Letter to Pres. Lincoln (1862).
It is scarcely hyperbole to say that tomorrow the whole Moghul Empire is in our power.
Clive, Robert, 1st Baron of Plassey— 1757 Letter, 24 Jun, following victory at Plassey the previous day.
“Screw up my life?” He stared a me for a second and then said, deadpan, “I’m a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow.” He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, “Do your worst.”
jim butcher— Character: Waldo Butters, Chapter 5
Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.
jim butcher— Character: Harry Dresden, Chapter 22
Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were finally the only important ones for us, there was no point in seeking what might exist in an inaccessible domain. I find it very difficult to understand this point of view since what is inaccessible today may become accessible tomorrow (as has happened by the invention of the microscope), and also because coherent assumptions on what is still invisible may increase our understanding of the visible.
Jean Baptiste Perrin— Nobel Lecture (11 December 1926)
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles— Line 943. (Trachiniae)
On John Edwards, U.S. Senator from North Carolina: "The stump speech of pretty-boy Senator John Edwards, which I've heard often enough to be able to mouth along with him, has room for everything, including vivid, wrenching portraits of despair: 'Tonight somewhere in America a ten-year-old little girl will go to bed hungry, hoping and praying that tomorrow will not be as cold as today because she doesn't have the coat to keep her warm.' You'd have to have a heart of stone not to be doubled up in laughter at that line.
mark steyn— "It's the war, stupid", 1 March 2004
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches — They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them The cold, familiar wind — Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf One by one objects are defined — It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance — Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.
william carlos williams— "Spring and All"
Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!
benjamin, park, sr.— Press On
Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow!
steve maraboli— p. 36 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
Being attached to the problems of yesterday or the insecurities of tomorrow will destroy your today.
steve maraboli— p. 89 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow.
unknown
A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
— Original: Um tédio que inclui a antecipação só de mais tédio; a pena, já, de amanhã ter pena de ter tido pena hoje.
— Ibid., p. 50
Marat Today they need you because you are going to suffer for them They need you and they honour the urn which holds your ashes tomorrow they will come back and smash that urn and they will ask Marat who was Marat
peter weiss— Sade, act 1, scene 20 (p. 46)
To-morrow never yet on any human being rose or set.
— William Marsden, What is Time?
