We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.


Johann von Goethe

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There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.
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If you keep on thinking about yesterday, you will miss out on today and lose hope for tomorrow.
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Yesterday is history we write today to repeat it tomorrow.
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Today is the tomorrow of yesterday.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
JAMES HOWELL
The difference between yesterday & tomorrow is today.
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Today was tomorrow and will be yesterday
TAREQ KHALAF
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Learn from your Yesterdays. Do your best Todays. Plan for your ideal Tomorrows.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
PROVERB
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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There is no yesterday or tomorrow and yet we believe that there is.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
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Do it today! Yesterday is gone and tomorrow it might be forbidden.
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Let today be better than yesterday, and tomorrow be better than today.
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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday
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She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.
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We don't need it today, we don't need it tomorrow, we needed it yesterday.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
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Don't lament yesterday least tomorrow you lament today.
JIM GENOVESE
leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition t...
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Don't worry about yesterday, stop judging tomorrow, and live by today
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Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
ANON.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
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Learn from yesterday, Live for today, Plan for tomorrow.
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Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
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Today you have the opportunity to better yesterday and aspire towards tomorrow
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God has already been in your tomorrow, and is working on your today.
VIRGINIA MARTIN
Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.
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A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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MOI
You live your life today,
Not tomorrow,
and certainly not yesterday.
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Yesterday was the past. Tomorrow is the future. Today is a gift, that why it's called the present.
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Today will always run faster than yesterday in search of tomorrow.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.
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I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
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Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
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Time may be a finely woven thread, yet it holds our yesterday, today and tomorrow together...
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Today well lived makes every yesterday a memory of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
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I live today to prove things I can do for tomorrow, not for things I did yesterday.
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I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent....
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and pers...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Superstition is the poetry of life.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The people rate strength before everything.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselve...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
By seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they en...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
I do not now begin,--I still adore
Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast;
Then once again ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
JOHANN VON GOETHE