

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
Playboy interview, May 1971
Context: There's a lot of things great about life. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. Comes in to us at midnight very clean, ya know. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
Closing words, “Night is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun”
The Living City (1958)
“Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.”
President Clinton's speech at the 200th anniversary of the University of North Carolina.
This quote was later used as a sample by electronic duo Cosmic Gate in their track "Tomorrow"
2000s
“Yesterday is safe,
Tomorrow's full of danger,
Yesterday's a face I know,
Tomorrow is a stranger.”
"A Spell for Midnight"
“Never look back on something bad, yesterday is gone, today is now, tomorrow doesn't exist.”