Be Better Than Yesterday Quotes

“It is well that we remember that the trials, difficulties, and experiences of life all have purpose. There came to me on the occasion of a year in my life to be remembered when the lovely sisters of our Relief Society wrote this as a prayer in my behalf. It was entitled 'May You Have':
"Enough happiness to keep you sweet,
Enough trials to keep you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human,
Enough hope to keep you happy,
Enough failure to keep you humble,
Enough success to keep you eager,
Enough wealth to meet your needs,
Enough enthusiasm to look forward,
Enough friends to give you comfort,
Enough faith to banish depression,
Enough determination to make each day better than yesterday.
"This is my prayer for the faithful Saints in every land and throughout the world as we look forward to the future with courage and with fortitude”

— Harold B. Lee

“According to an article in the Washington Post: The Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly urged antidepressant manufacturers not to disclose to physicians and the public that some clinical trials of the medications in children found that drugs were no better than sugar pills, according to documents and testimony released at a congressional hearing yesterday. Regulators supressed the negative information on the grounds that it might scare families and physicians away from the drugs, according to testimony by drug company executives. For at least three medications, they said, the FDA blocked the companies' plans to reveal the negative studies in drug labels.”

— Irving Kirsch

“The Mirror Prayer
I see you man in the mirror. I see you and raise you. I will be better today than you were yesterday, and tomorrow you will be better than I was today.”

— Dimitri Zaik

“All you can try to do is be better than you were yesterday, everyday.”

— Marcus Harrison Green

“No matter how screwed up your life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start whenever you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know that tomorrow is gonna be better than yesterday”

— Robyn Schneider

“Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren't guaranteed tomorrow.”

— Tina A. Morgan

“Creating life as I go and editing when needed in order to move forward. Always under construction to do and be better than yesterday.”

— Donal O'Callaghan

“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

“But today is better than yesterday. And this hurt is still a hole in me, but it's a shrinking hole.”

— Courtney C. Stevens

“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.

“If you make it a Habit to make your Today better than your Yesterday, then for sure, your Tomorrow will be better than your Today.-RVM”

— R.v.m.

“Rather than wasting time on yesterday that is gone, it is better to invest your time in tomorrow that is not yet born.-RVM”

— R.v.m.

“A Girl is gone! A Girl is lost! A simple Rustic Maiden but Yesterday swung upon the Pasture Gate, with Knowledge nowhere, yet is now, to-day, no better than her Mother, and her Mother's Mother before her! Soiled! Despoiled! Handled! Mauled! Rumpled! Rummaged! Ransacked! No purer than Fish in Sea, no sweater than Bird on Wing, no better than Beasts of Earth!”

— Djuna Barnes

“Be better than yesterday.”

— T.F. Hodge

“The only person you should try to be better than is the one you were yesterday”

— Unknown

“I have calmed down a little and my work is going better than yesterday, so well, in fact, that it does itself and I can slip back into the womb of time, into my youth, when I ironed my trousers and shined my shoes, soles included, every Saturday, because when you're young you love keeping clean, you love your self-image, an image you still have time to improve.”

— Bohumil Hrabal

“No matter how screwed up life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start where you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know tomorrow's gonna be better than yesterday”

— Robyn Schneider

“If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.”

— Maya Rudolph

“All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.”

— James Howell

“The early pioneers of both wellness and network marketing were motivated by the sense that it was possible to create a better life than the conventional routes offered - better personal health and better economic health, respectively. Now the 'alternatives' of yesterday have become the economic powerhouses of today and tomorrow.”

— Paul Zane Pilzer

“When I was teaching basketball, I urged my players to try their hardest to improve on that very day, to make that practice a masterpiece.
Too often we get distracted by what is outside our control. You can't do anything about yesterday. The door to the past has been shut and the key thrown away. You can do nothing about tomorrow. It is yet to come. However, tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So make today a masterpiece. You have control over that.
This rule is even more important in life than basketball. You have to apply yourself each day to become a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better. Only then will you will be able to approach being the best you can be. It begins by trying to make each day count and knowing you can never make up for a lost day.”

— John Wooden

“The only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday”

— Jenny Lawson

“Happiness comes from striving to make tomorrow better than today and being at peace when yesterday was better than today as well.”

— Dan Pearce

“I'm better than I used to be.
Better than I was yesterday.
But hopefully
not as good as I'll be tomorrow.”

— Marianne Williamson

“I feel like we're all here on this planet, and intimacy is important. I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want to get beyond that thing of discussing how the weather is a bit better today than it was yesterday, and how this is a nice restaurant. I want to get to what are the problems, what's really going on. Are you in love? Are you in a lot of pain? What's really going on in your life? I'm interested in that area, whether it's on stage or in real life.”

— Simon Amstell

“The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.”

— Jon Gordon

“That's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"”

— LaToya Jackson

“There was a point in my teenage years, when we were starting to play bigger shows and females were running after tour buses and all that, and my mom - and I remember this like it was yesterday - said: "Look, I want you to know that I couldn't be prouder of you. You are extraordinary. You move people. But it doesn't make you better than them. You still put your pants on the same way as them, one leg at a time every morning." I thought about learning to jump right into them, just to mess with her. But what she said stuck with me, and I think it's true.”

— Justin Timberlake

“I've learned that you should only try to be better than who you were yesterday.”

— Kacy Catanzaro

“It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.”

— Kano Jigoro

“Be your biggest competitor - challenge yourself each day to be better than you were yesterday.”

— Kaoru

“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

“We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Above all, I strive to be the best I can - to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

“Today things are better than yesterday.”

— Aristophanes

“Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday ... If you work, you're surrounded by young people who are plugged into the marketplace, the demographic, the zeitgeist; they want your job and someday they're going to get it.”

— Nora Ephron

“The beautiful thing about TODAY is that you get the choice to make it better than YESTERDAY”

— Robin Sharma

“Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.”

— Robin Sharma