Top 100 Only Yesterday Quotes
#1. In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.
Haruki Murakami
#2. To demilitarize the country means to make a profound decision. It is not enough to change the name of the armed forces. It is necessary to change the minds of those people who only yesterday wore a military uniform.
Oscar Arias
#3. Whether it's something that happened twenty years ago or only yesterday I must start out with an emotion, one that's close to me and that I can understand.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#4. I might have known," said Eeyore. "After all, one can't complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!'. The Social Round. Always something going on.
A.A. Milne
#5. 56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.
Gordon Brown
#6. If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.
Claude Debussy
#7. Everyday I feel more and more like a full-fledged adult. Even though it was (metaphorically) only yesterday I was sloshing in the door at four a.m. after Dollar Beer Night, I find myself with a mortgage, four types of insurance, and a non-laundry-quarter-based retirement fund.
Jen Lancaster
#8. Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.
Patricia A. McKillip
#9. One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you've already lived. And you think, How did this happen so fast? It was only yesterday when I was having my first legal drink, when I was diapering him, when I was young.
Jodi Picoult
#10. I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
Oscar Wilde
#11. I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.
Albert Camus
#12. We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
Anna Freud
#13. Was he bewitched by those beautiful eyes, that soft, half-open, sighing mouth which lay so close upon his shoulder only yesterday? He could not even shake off the recollection that she had been there; that her arms had been round him, once - if never again.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#14. I was saying to him only yesterday: 'You are imprudent, M. le Comte; for when you go to Auteuil and take your servants the house is left unprotected.' 'Well,' said he, 'what next?' 'Well, next, someday you will be robbed."
"What did he say?"
"He quietly said: 'What do I care if I am?
Alexandre Dumas
#15. But everything Had changed , the oasis would never again have the same meaning it had had only yesterday . it will no longer be a place with fifty thousand palm trees and three hundred wells . from that day on , the oasis would be an empty place
Paulo Coelho
#16. Our guides, we pretend, must be sinless: as if those were not often the best teachers who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes.
George Eliot
#17. If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter.
Carroll Bryant
#18. It seems only yesterday that I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.
Billy Collins
#19. God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?
Frederick Lenz
#20. Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
#21. Tomorrow belongs to those who can learn. For those who can't, there's only yesterday.
Parke Godwin
#22. It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer ... and everything collapses.
Colette
#23. Other, just as if it had been only yesterday when
George Eliot
#24. It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine.
Billy Collins
#25. Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it
teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday.
Mercedes Lackey
#26. Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.
Ellen Hopkins
#27. Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes are higher, and I covet here below nothing but obscurity and peace.
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
#28. Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday.
Irving Pichel
#29. Did you indeed?" said Ripred. "It seems like only yesterday you were a baby bouncing on your grandpa's knee. And now you're starting wars. They grow up so fast.
Suzanne Collins
#30. I'm so sorry. I read of it only yesterday. Otherwise, I would have come sooner.' And what good that reassurance was, he had no idea. I would not have come if her were alive, but I would have come at the very moment of his death, had I known of it. Yes, that must be very comforting to her.
Meredith Duran
#31. america...is the interplay of three hundred million rube goldberg contraptions invented only yesterday
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#32. Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's list to avoid.
Frank Rich
#33. I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that they ended up by overlapping on each other. In fact, I never thought of days as such; only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still kept some meaning.
Albert Camus
#34. It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.
Soren Kierkegaard
#35. There exists only the present instant ... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Meister Eckhart
#36. Your magnificent journey of today can only begin when you learn to let go of yesterday. Truly believe and you shall get there.
Timothy Pina
#37. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#38. The only person you should try to be better than is the one you were yesterday
Unknown
#39. An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.
Curt Gowdy
#40. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
#41. On the street there is no tomorrow. There is only here and now and nothing else. And yesterday is just another day you're trying to forget. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#42. Yesterday doesn't even look the same, and the only thing more beautiful than today is tomorrow.
Marc Marcel
#43. Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.
Elizabeth Hawes
#44. Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.
A.J. Darkholme
#45. In the end, only Leif believed that you were still alive. He thought you might be hiding somewhere, playing a game. As the rest of us grieved, Leif searched the jungle for you day after day."
"When did he finally stop?" I asked.
"Yesterday.
Maria V. Snyder
#46. For the need to think can never be stilled by allegedly definite insights of "wise men"; it can be satisfied only through thinking, and the thoughts I had yesterday will satisfy this need today only to the extent that I want and am able to think them anew.
Hannah Arendt
#47. Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#48. That I miss her. I really miss her. She's only been gone for two months, but it feels like longer. And it also feels like it just happened, like yesterday.
Jenny Han
#49. Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
D.H. Lawrence
#50. I'm on a strict running program. I started yesterday. I've only missed one day so far.
Kevin Nealon
#51. Today is yesterday, today is tomorrow. For it's only one day that comes and goes, over and over again.
C.C. Wyatt
#52. The only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday
Jenny Lawson
#53. Yesterday is a cancelled check;
Tomorrow is a promissory note;
Today is the only cash you have,
so spend it wisely.
Kim Lyons
#54. It rained last night heavily, and now the skies are beginning to clear; it is a new fresh day. Let us meet that fresh day as if it were the only day. Let us start on our journey together with all the remembrance of yesterday left behind - and begin to understand ourselves for the first time.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#55. To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.
Debbie Ford
#56. Yesterday I was, tomorrow I will be, but only Here and Now I Am.
Human Angels
#58. In every age someone, looking at Fedora as it was, imagined a way of making it the ideal city, but while he constructed his miniature model, Fedora was already no longer the same as before, and what had been until yesterday a possible future became only a toy in a glass globe.
Italo Calvino
#59. Today is today, only today ...
tomorrow ... it will only be yesterday.
L. Curt Erler
#60. Life is short, do not hesitate!
Enjoyed and lived Now because Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is only an illusion!
Ebelsain Villegas
#61. Yesterday was not only daylight saving time, but also International Women's Day. What better way to address the issue of inequality for women than giving them a day that's missing an hour.
David Letterman
#62. Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.
Marla Gibbs
#63. Letting yesterday affect today will only destroy the excitement of tomorrow.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#64. You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
Jonathan Swift
#65. It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
Peter F. Drucker
#66. Yesterday I lost not only a competitor, friend but most importantly a brother. Andy Irons you will be in my heart for eternity! R.I.P AI
Mick Fanning
#67. Besides, easy is overrated, and the only easy day was yesterday.
Elle James
#68. The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday?
Chris Matakas
#69. It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
Vladimir Lenin
#70. When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfully. "But no one can ever go back to yesterday.
Robin Hobb
#71. The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.
Bill Buxton
#72. Tomorrow awaits to become yesterday. Remnant shall only be a smile, a frown or a tear! Let's store what we may!
Deeba Salim Irfan
#73. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now,
Ernest Hemingway,
#74. We can't force life to do what we want when we want it. We can't change yesterday or control tomorrow. We can only live today as best we can. And it just might turn out better than expected
Sarah McCoy
#75. I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday's children as well. It's nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, 'You were a good friend.' That's the warmest part.
Bob Keeshan
#76. You are not suffering yesterday or tomorrow. You are only suffering your memory and your imagination.
Sadghuru
#77. Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is only a promise. Only today is legal tender.
Venita VanCaspel
#78. What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?
Max Lucado
#80. I've learned that you should only try to be better than who you were yesterday.
Kacy Catanzaro
#81. We shall have no more prophets or sages from the ancient quarter, which is why the devotions of today are only the echoing repetitions of yesterday, sometimes ratcheted up to screaming point so as to ward off the terrible emptiness.
Christopher Hitchens
#82. Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.
Goswami Kriyananda
#83. What we had yesterday has gone away. What we have today will only last this day. What we will have twomorrow no one can take away. So treasure the moments given, appreciate what is offered.
Mark Millar
#84. Don't be amongst those who are trying to build a better Tomorrow. You can have a better tomorrow only if your Today is better than your Yesterday.
R.v.m.
#85. Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development
Lev S. Vygotsky
#86. Renew, release, let go. Yesterday's gone. There's nothing you can do to bring it back. You can't "should've" done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!
Steve Maraboli
#87. I can't change what I did yesterday. I can't change what hasn't happened yet tomorrow. I can only work on the today and the right now.
Just Jewel
#88. The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"
Khalil Gibran
#89. You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn't care about what you did or didn't do yesterday or what you're going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right now.
Noel DeJesus
#90. It only takes 24 hours for our tomorrow to become our yesterday.
Abhishek Garg
#91. Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.
William J. Clinton
#92. That woman freaks me out. She's the whole reason I'm gay and I only met her yesterday.
L.J. Hayward
#93. How about we get rid of separate bathrooms for boys and girls? Gays and straights share the bathroom with zero issues. We need to put an end to the sexist pooping policies of yesterday. The only way to achieve gender equality is to start crapping in front of each other.
Daniel Tosh
#94. There is only forward. Only tomorrow. No yesterday, no going back. And nothing of value is left behind, so nothing is truly lost.
Lesley Livingston
#95. Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?
John Updike
#96. Today has meaning only if it stands between yesterday and tomorrow.
C. G. Jung
#97. If you're living for today, if you're only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn't work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you're on your way.
Bill Walton
#98. Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Kalidasa
#99. Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
John Donne
#100. The regrets are like yesterday: they announce only the future. (Les regrets sont comme hier: - Ils n'annoncent que le futur)
Charles De Leusse
