Yesterday Quotes - Page 29

Hi. Cat was just keeping me company until you came back.” He glanced in the direction she’d just disappeared to before returning his attention to me. “Fourteen hundred and thirty-one." I blinked. "What's that?" "The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday.

Jeaniene Frost

Cat, Years, Attention

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You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time...Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.

John Keats

Home, Kissing, Movement

John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

John Dewey

Teacher, Powerful, Teaching

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It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

Kate Atkinson

Long, Long Time, Long Time Ago

Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.546, Random House

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He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

Daniel Wallace

Mistake, Ambition, Past

Daniel Wallace (2014). “The Kings and Queens of Roam: A Novel”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.

Rainbow Rowell

Sorry, Said, Happens

Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.158, Macmillan

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It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

Rick Yancey

Mean, Guarantees That, Dawn

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.386, Penguin

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Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.

Shaun Tan

Today, Tomorrow

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Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.

John C. Maxwell

Positive, Thinking, Today

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O, call back yesterday, bid time return

William Shakespeare

Time, Return, Time Management

'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 69

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Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that 'yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Khalil Gibran

Dream, Time, Memories

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam':
Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life is too late; live today.
Variant translation: Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say; Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.

Martial

Wise, Time, Believe

'Epigrammata' bk. 1, no. 15

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Horace

Time, Past, Weight Loss

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Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.

Og Mandino

Good Morning, Good Day, Opportunity

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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say;
To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.

Martial

Life, Wise, Doe

Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.251

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Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Leo Buscaglia

Moving On, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

John C. Maxwell

Single, Hurt, Moving

John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.78, Harper Collins

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Change, Men, Endurance

Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Thomas Carlyle

Change, Hope, Pain

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.34

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For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know

Kate Seredy

Dance, Tomorrow, Knows

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I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.

Maya Angelou

Morning, Blessed, People

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There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.

Robert Jones Burdette

Future, Two, Worry

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Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.

Warren W. Wiersbe

Christian, Regret, Two

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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga, Today, Should

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Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Lillie Langtry

Memories, Moving Forward, Vision

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