Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
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.
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
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!”
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
“I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.”
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Source: Clippings from My Notebook
“The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Variant: The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
citizenship in the changing world of tomorrow.
“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,
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
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.
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”
Alice Morse Earle (1851–1911) American historian
“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”
Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
Scott Cawthon (1971) American independent video game designer
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
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.”
Selena Gomez (1992) American singer and actress
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Source: P.S. I Love You
Melanie Thornton (1967–2001) singer
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. ”
Alice Morse Earle (1851–1911) American historian
“The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow”
Dian Fossey (1932–1985) American zoologist, gorilla researcher
T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader
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 King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther
Misattributed
“In tomorrow's world we must all work together as hard as ever, if we're truly to be United Nations”
Isabel II do Reino Unido (1926–2022) queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and head of the Commonwealth of 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.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
Amin Maalouf (1949) Francophone Lebanese writer based in France
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.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
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.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”
Haile Selassie (1892–1975) Emperor of Ethiopia
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.”
Nostradamus (1503–1566) French apothecary and reputed seer
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
“It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.”
Aesop book The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Ant and the Grasshopper.
“Never say goodbye,
You say tomorrow's another day,
All I know is we're here today.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
"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.
Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer
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.”
Rihanna (1988) Barbadian singer, songwriter, and actress
“I know not what tomorrow will bring”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
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.”
William Osler (1849–1919) Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospi…
As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 575.
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Variant: Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
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.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Oscar Wilde book The Canterville Ghost
Source: The Canterville Ghost http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887)
“I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”
Kris Kristofferson (1936) American country music singer, songwriter, musician, and film actor
Kristin Cast book Marked
Source: Marked
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Source: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), Chapter Six
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Will You Be There
Dangerous (1991)
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[Swami Nikhilananda, Holy Mother, 204]
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
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.”
Gabe Newell (1962) American computer programmer and businessman
YouTube - What Most Schools Don't Teach, code.org, 2013-02-26, 2014-11-22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc,
LeBron James (1984) American basketball player
James not bothered by those rooting for him to fail, Steve Ginsburg, Reuters, June 13, 2011 http://ca.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idCATRE75C0T420110613, <br class="br">James addressing fans after losing to the Dallas Mavericks in the 2011 NBA Finals.
Indíra Gándhí (1917–1984) Indian politician and Prime Minister
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. <br class="br">Her last speech delivered in Orissa on 30 October 1984 before she was assassinated.
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989), Farewell Address (1989)
Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches
Letter to Capito, January 1, 1526 (Staehelin, Briefe ausder Reformationseit, p. 20), ibid, p. 249-250
Chuck Close (1940–2021) American artist
Inside the Painter's Studio, Joe Fig, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009, p. 42
Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876) Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism
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
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist and archaeologist
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose in Vijayaprasara
Etty Hillesum (1914–1943) Jewish diarist
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.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
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. ”
John Wayne (1907–1979) American film actor
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 (1970)
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
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: <br class="br">Misattributed
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer
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
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2011, Remarks by the President to Parliament in London, United Kingdom (May 2011)
“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.”
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) Purported clairvoyant healer and psychic
“Tomorrow is another day toward death.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
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.”
Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Variant: Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
Source: The Woman in White
Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007) American writer
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.”
Shaun Tan book The Lost Thing
Source: The Lost Thing