“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
Le Moniteur Universel, March 20, 1815.
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“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
“Our heartbeats pounding tomorrow into being…”
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
Space: What love's got to do with it - The Space Review (2004)
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Paul A. Baran (1909–1964) American Marxist economist
Source: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter Five, On The Roots Of Backwardness, p. 144
“Our only hope for tomorrow is peace now.”
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer
Spring of 1970; referring to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam – as quoted in Lloyd Alexander (1991) by Jill P. May, p. 10
“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) 11th President of India, scientist and science administrator
Charles A. Beard (1874–1948) American historian
The American Leviathan: The Republic in the Machine Age (1931) co-written with William Beard, p. 39
Context: If this statement by Judge Cooley is true, and the authority for it is unimpeachable, then the theory that the Constitution is a written document is a legal fiction. The idea that it can be understood by a study of its language and the history of its past development is equally mythical. It is what the Government and the people who count in public affairs recognize and respect as such, what they think it is. More than this. It is not merely what it has been, or what it is today. It is always becoming something else and those who criticize it and the acts done under it, as well as those who praise, help to make it what it will be tomorrow.
Nahum Tate (1652–1715) Anglo-Irish poet and playwright
Dido and Aeneas (opera; music by Henry Purcell)
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
Variant: The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Source: Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power
Context: Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
“Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow”
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Perfect Fifths