Quotes about tomorrow
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“Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today.”

Variant: Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it
Source: One Day

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Bob Dylan photo

“let me forget about today until tomorrow”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
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“How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I've committed to?”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

Variant: How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

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“What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

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“It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.”

Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007) American writer

Source: The Sky is Falling

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“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself..”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

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“Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.”

Source: Brave New World

“… what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.”

Variant: What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

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“This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.”

Variant: The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
Source: Rant

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”

Neil LaBute (1963) Film director, playwright, screenwriter

Source: Reasons to Be Pretty

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“Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Raven's Shadow

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“Every tomorrow is determined by every today.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
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“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood — it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, "Too late."

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“I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don't know what.”

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist

Source: In Search of Small Gods

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“no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Variant: It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Source: The Great Gatsby

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“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

Book III, Ode 29, lines 65–68.
Imitation of Horace (1685)

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“Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.”

Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907) French novelist and art critic

Source: Becalmed

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“"Well you'll have to wait 'til tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself. "Look. Jammies."”

Jace to Clary, pg. 324
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you.
~Nicholas Stafford”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

Source: A Knight in Shining Armor

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“I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

Source: Twenty One Love Poems

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“The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Newspaper interview (1902), when asked what qualities a politician required, Halle, Kay, Irrepressible Churchill. Cleveland: World, 1966. cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 489 ISBN 1586486381
Early career years (1898–1929)

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“Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

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Stephen Colbert photo

“Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
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“This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer

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“Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Being Peace

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“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

Source: Night

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“He taught me to trust in tomorrow.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer

Source: This World We Live In

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“I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Context: I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.

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“I'm scared. What will tomorrow bring? It has to be better than today. It has to.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

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“Today will die tomorrow.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
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“Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better”

Kevin Henkes (1960) American children's illustrator and writer

Variant: Today was a difficult day.
Tomorrow will be better.'
-Mr. Slinger
Source: Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

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“In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Context: Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Dan Brown photo

“Today is today. But there are many tomorrows”

Source: The Da Vinci Code

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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)
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“Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”

Glory Road (1963)
Context: Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.