quotations about yesterday
Regret is ... an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.
GERALD LAWSON SITTSER
A Grace Disguised
Tomorrow is a beacon for the ambitious, just as yesterday is a beacon for the envious.
MIHNEA C. MOLDOVEANU
Master Passions: Emotion, Narrative, and the Development of Culture
All our yesterdays are here, the things we use and throw away, lost and found in spidery cocoons.
JONATHAN JONES
"Alice Anderson at the Wellcome Collection Review - a weird, wired world", The Guardian, July 17, 2015
Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
SAMUEL BECKETT
"Proust", Samuel Beckett: Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism
Once I was called Tomorrow, and was virgin pure; then I became your bride and was named Today; now I am Yesterday, and carry upon me the eternal stain of your embrace.
FRANK CRANE
"Yesterday", Four Minute Essays
Pile up enough tomorrows and you'll end up with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
ANONYMOUS
You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery.
ANONYMOUS
Confidence is a direct reflection of past performance. Hence, yesterday is more important than today. Luckily, today is tomorrow's yesterday. So, even if your confidence today isn't optimal, your confidence tomorrow is still within your control.
BENJAMIN HARDY
"The 2 mental shifts highly successful people make", CNBC, March 13, 2017
Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin.
MOTHER TERESA
attributed, Summer of Yesterday
I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday.
K. J. BISHOP
The Etched City
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
ANONYMOUS
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No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
PEGGY WALL
"King News", The Stokes News, February 21, 2017
Oh the yesterdays of life!
How with joys their hours were rife!
Joys that flew too quick away,
On the wings of yesterday.
LAURA ANN WHITMORE
"Yesterday", Aurora and Other Poems
Tomorrows come unnoticed. Todays slip by unheeded. More and more you become a creature of Yesterdays.
FRANK CRANE
"Yesterday"
If you don't do something today then your tomorrow will look exactly like your yesterday.
EDGAR BILLY
"RHS's Matric Commitment Ceremony", Randfontein Herald, March 2, 2017
The man who wastes today lamenting yesterday will waste tomorrow lamenting today.
PHILIP BASKIN
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
God is always in the process of restoring. Your yesterday isn't your today.
TYRONE GREEN
"There's a lot of love at Hearts Delight", Fauquier Times, February 16, 2017
And I'll take with me the memories
To be my sunshine after the rain
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.
JASON MRAZ
"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday", Yes!
Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.
MEDEIA SHARIF
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