Y is for YESTERDAY

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
- Sanskrit Proverb

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Don Marquis

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
- Earl Wilson



It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
- Bob Goddard]]

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
- Mignon McLaughlin

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
- Walter Winchell



Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie

There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.
- Robert Burdette

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
- Edwin Bliss



Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing there'll be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday.
- Jane Seymour

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.
- Luigi Pirandello

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton



A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift

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



As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore



Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
Publilius Syrus

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
Renata Adler

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



Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.
Neale Donald Walsch

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de Montaigne



I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!
William Allen White

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll



I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
George Murray

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx



If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
William Hazlitt

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
Robert Hewison

If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
Norman Ralph Augustine



If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.
John Shelby Spong

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. Wells

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
Olin Miller



If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Pearl S. Buck

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
Frank Dane

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Jean Rostand



It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
William Pollard



Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
Ralph W. Sockman

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
Charles Lindbergh

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann



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

life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.
Roddy McDowall

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers



No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Alexander Pope

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
Phyllis McGinley

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
Henry Arthur Jones



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

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Junius

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis



Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Napoleon Hill

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
Romain Rolland

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
Miyamoto Musashi



Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
Garrett Fort

The best time is always yesterday.
Tatyana Tolstaya

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Washington Irving



The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
Norma Shearer

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
Dennis Gabor



The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Thomas Carlyle

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Mackenzie King



The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Charles Kingsley



There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Mignon McLaughlin

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Meister Eckhart

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
Steven Wright



Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.
Edward Fitzgerald

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
Fernando Pessoa

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
John Burroughs



Today is yesterday's pupil.
Thomas Fuller

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
Robert H. Schuller

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
David Icke



Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
Kenneth L. Pike

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
Marcus Aurelius

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne



Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
William Faulkner

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

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



We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
John Newton

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Fulton Oursler

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
Harold S. Geneen



We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
Charles M. Schulz



Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran

Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Edward Fitzgerald

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Kahlil Gibran



Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
Bob Dylan

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello