“To make tomorrow better we must realize tough realities today, to understand the necessity for renunciation.”
Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)
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Wojciech Jaruzelski 13
Polish military officer and politician 1923–2014Related quotes
“Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.”
“We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.”
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Context: You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better”
Variant: Today was a difficult day.
Tomorrow will be better.'
-Mr. Slinger
Source: Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
“Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow.”
“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”
Connections (1979), 1 - The Trigger Effect
Context: The Egyptians built an empire and ran it with a handful of technology... the wheel, irrigation canals, the loom, the calendar, pen & ink, some cutting tools, some simple metallurgy, and the plough, the invention that triggered it all off. And yet look how complex and sophisticated their civilisation was. And how soon it happened, after that first man-made harvest. The Egyptian plough and those of the few other civilisations sprang up around the world at the same time... Gave us control over nature... And at the same time, tied us for good, to the things that we invent so that tomorrow will be better than today. The Egyptians knew that. That's why they had gods. To make sure that their systems didn't fail.