
Other quotes, 2015
Original: (ja) 明日の自分が今の自分を見たら胸張っていられるように、そんな今を過ごし続けたいなという風に思ってます。
Source: Interview with NHK on 15 June 2015, aired the same day in the evening news program News Watch 9.
A collection of quotes on the topic of tomorrow, today, doing, day.
Other quotes, 2015
Original: (ja) 明日の自分が今の自分を見たら胸張っていられるように、そんな今を過ごし続けたいなという風に思ってます。
Source: Interview with NHK on 15 June 2015, aired the same day in the evening news program News Watch 9.
“The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway!”
“I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
Source: Clippings from My Notebook
“The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”
Variant: The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
citizenship in the changing world of tomorrow.
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8 : How I Conquered Worry,
Source: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
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.
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”
“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”
As prime minister, introducing the 4th Amendment to the Constitution Bill, 23 May 1980, which envisaged a tricameral corporate federation. Cited in The Star, and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, PW Botha in his own words, p. 27
“Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow.”
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
Source: P.S. I Love You
One of her last interviews before her death in a plane crash on November 24, 2001.
Attributed
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. ”
“The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow”
On destiny - "The Shock Of Reality" http://allafrica.com/stories/200908240244.html All Africa (August 24 2009)
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Martin Luther
Misattributed
“In tomorrow's world we must all work together as hard as ever, if we're truly to be United Nations”
The Queen urging nations to work together at her second address of the United Nations http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10533451.stm
“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
Source: The First Century After Beatrice
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Earliest record is in a circular letter from Hessian Church minister Karl Lotz on 5 October 1944 and modified from a quote by Johanan ben Zakai according to [Landes, Richard Allen, Heaven on Earth: The varieties of the millennial experience, USA, Oxford University Press, 2011, 978-0-19-975359-8, https://books.google.com/books?id=seS-0JTykgoC&pg=PA48, 48]
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Martin Luther / Disputed
Misattributed
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
“In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”
Statement after his speech before the League of Nations (30 June 1936), as quoted in " "The Lion is Freed" in TIME magazine (8 September 1975) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917777,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
“Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here.”
Last words, as quoted in Famous Last Words: The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells (2004) by Laura Ward and Robert Allen; reported to have been said to his secretary Jean de Chavigny
“Never say goodbye,
You say tomorrow's another day,
All I know is we're here today.”
"Never Say Goodbye" on It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982).
Context: Never say goodbye,
You say tomorrow's another day,
All I know is we're here today. I've got nightmares I could never share with you,
The kind that keeps me up all night.
So hold me tight till the room is light
And tell me that it's all right.
Interview (20 September 1988), included in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, DVD 7, "Mission Logs: Year Five", "A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry", 0:26:09)
Context: Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.
“There’s freedom in honesty. If you just face it today, tomorrow you can move on to something else.”
“I know not what tomorrow will bring”
Last sentence (29 November 1935), quoted in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe by Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics, 2006)
“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.
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Variant: Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
Source: Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”
Source: Marked
Source: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), Chapter Six
Will You Be There
Dangerous (1991)
[Swami Nikhilananda, Holy Mother, 204]
This is widely reported on many sites as coming from the Bilderberg Conference (1991) Evians, France, purportedly recorded by a Swiss diplomat, but no such recording has ever been provided.
Misattributed
“The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.”
YouTube - What Most Schools Don't Teach, code.org, 2013-02-26, 2014-11-22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc,
James not bothered by those rooting for him to fail, Steve Ginsburg, Reuters, June 13, 2011 http://ca.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idCATRE75C0T420110613,
James addressing fans after losing to the Dallas Mavericks in the 2011 NBA Finals.
In: Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: January 1, 1982-October 30, 1984 http://books.google.com/books?id=ndA3AQAAIAAJ, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1986, p. 495.
Her last speech delivered in Orissa on 30 October 1984 before she was assassinated.
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989), Farewell Address (1989)
Letter to Capito, January 1, 1526 (Staehelin, Briefe ausder Reformationseit, p. 20), ibid, p. 249-250
Inside the Painter's Studio, Joe Fig, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009, p. 42
Letter http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bakunin/letters/toherzenandogareff.html to Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen and Ogareff from San Francisco (3 October 1861); published in Correspondance de Michel Bakounine (1896) edited by Michel Dragmanov
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose in Vijayaprasara
12 July 1942, p. 488-89
Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“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.
“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. ”
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 (1970)
This is a variant or paraphrase of The Paradoxical Commandments, by Kent M. Keith, student activist, first composed in 1968 as part of a booklet for student leaders, which had hung on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta, India, and have sometimes become misattributed to her. The version posted at his site http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com begins:
Misattributed
There are many other options of organization for the future than those typically discussed today... In order to accomplish this task one must be free of bias and nationalism, and reflect those qualities in the design of policies. How would you approach that? This is a difficult project requiring input from many disciplines.
Source: Designing the Future (2007), p. 6-7
2011, Remarks by the President to Parliament in London, United Kingdom (May 2011)
“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.”
“Don't fear tomorrow, till today's done with you.”
Source: Pirates!
“Tomorrow is another day toward death.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Quoted in Vernon K. McLellan (2000) Wise Words and Quotes
Misattributed
“Dont speak of tomorrow. Let the music speak to us tonight, in a happier language than ours.”
Variant: Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
Source: The Woman in White
Variant: Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
“Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.”
Source: The Lost Thing