“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”
Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 310
1950s, Television interview with Mike Wallace (1960)
“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”
Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 89
“Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after”
Grace Lee Boggs (1915–2015) social activist and feminist
Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
“Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.”
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
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
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8 : How I Conquered Worry,
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
“I no longer care about the mistakes of yesterday. I care about coping with tomorrow … together.”
Mark Waid (1962) American comics writer
Superman
Kingdom Come (1996)
Context: I no longer care about the mistakes of yesterday. I care about coping with tomorrow … together.
The problems we face still exist. We're not going to solve them for you... we're going to solve them with you … not by ruling above you … but by living among you. We will no longer impose our power on humanity. We will earn your trust … using the wisdom left as his legacy. I asked him to choose between humans and superhumans. But he alone knew that was a false division … and made the only choice that ever truly matters … he chose life … in the hope that your world and our world could be one world once again.
“Yesterday is safe,
Tomorrow's full of danger,
Yesterday's a face I know,
Tomorrow is a stranger.”
Henry Summers (1911–2005) British civil servant
"A Spell for Midnight"
“It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer