Tennessee Williams Quotes

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

He that will not look forward must look behind.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

hindsight is not a strategy.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.