Yesterday Quotes - Page 35

• Yesterday is ever jealous of...tomorrow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Jealous, Judgement, Tomorrow

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• I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him out on a breaking ball down-and-in and next at bat he hit the same pitch for a home run. I was telling my kids that story yesterday.

  Curt Young

  Running, Home, Kids

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• Remember the look in the eyes of the Aussies and the Kiwis yesterday - I don't want to see that here.

  John Smit

  Eye, Looks, Want

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• Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

  Bruce Mau

  Time, Children, Work

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• Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wise, Achievement, Mind

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• We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Years, Painful Experiences, Direct Action

  Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’, www.theatlantic.com. April 16, 1963.

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• You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Today, Wheels

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• Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

  Albert Claude

  Plato, Today, Dimensions

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• Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.

  Mike Gordon

  Country, Nice, Opportunity

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• Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

  Daniel Defoe

  Parent, Ancestry, Lord

  'The True-Born Englishman' (1701) pt. 1, l. 374

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• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."Stewart B. Johnson"Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.

  Germaine Greer

  Inspiring, Real, Men

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• When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

  Eric Hoffer

  Encouragement, Past, Competition

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times when the reciprocity was easier to see: in nomadic cultures, the food and shelter one gave to a stranger yesterday is the food and shelter one hopes to receive from a stranger tomorrow. By offering hospitality, one participates in the endless reweaving of a social fabric on which all can depend-thus the gift of sustenance for the guest becomes a gift of hope for the host.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Offering, Culture, Fabric

  Parker J. Palmer (2017). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.51, John Wiley & Sons

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• This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.

  Jack Kent Cooke

  Attitude, World, Impossibility

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• Yesterday a child came out to wonder
  Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
  Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
  And tearful at the falling of a star

  Joni Mitchell

  Stars, Children, Fall

  Song: The Circle Game

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• Live in constant gratitude. No matter what the condition today, no matter how dark, how dreary, how painful and difficult....to day is merely the passing outcome of yesterday's nonsense. How you feel today, and what you give your attention to, builds tomorrow.

  James Arthur Ray

  Gratitude, Dark, Giving

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• What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?

  Max Lucado

  Morning, What If, Ifs

  Twitter post from Nov 8, 2011

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• Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Sleep, Past, Opportunity

  Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

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• 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

  Impact, Focus, Too Late

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• It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.

  Paul Ryan

  Tired, Wind, Greek

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Inspirational, Acknowledge You, Today

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• The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Future, Irrevocable

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• The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today.

  Peggy Noonan

  Snow, Sculpture, Today

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• I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.

  Martha Graham

  Believe, Today, Tomorrow

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• We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

  Anna Freud

  Space, Tree, Forests

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