
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
The Ant and the Grasshopper.
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
Source: P.S. I Love You
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.”
As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 575.
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.
“Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Prudence
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”