Today is the current day or date, sometimes more broadly used to refer to conditions of the present time.

Quotes

  • Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
    • Attributed to Charles Dederich by The Washington Post (December 10, 1978), p. C5. He was the founder of Synanon, a self-help community for drug abusers and alcoholics, based in California.
  • Nothing that is can pause or stay;
    The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
    The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
    The rain to mist and cloud again,
    To-morrow be to-day.
  • Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’:
    Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
    • 'I'll live to-morrow', 'tis not wise to say:
      'Twill be too late to-morrow—live to-day.
    • Martial, Epigrams, i.15, tr. Francis Fawkes.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 806.
  • Out of Eternity
    The new Day is born;
    Into Eternity
    At night will return.
  • To-day is ours; what do we fear?
    To-day is ours; we have it here.
    Let's treat it kindly, that it may
    Wish, at least, with us to stay.
    Let's banish business, banish sorrow;
    To the gods belongs to-morrow.
  • To-morrow let my sun his beams display,
    Or in clouds hide them: I have lived to-day.
  • Days that need borrow
    No part of their good morrow,
    From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
  • What dost thou bring to me, O fair To-day,
    That comest o'er the mountains with swift feet?
  • Happy the man, and happy he alone,
    He, who can call to-day his own:
    He who, secure within, can say,
    To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day.
    • John Dryden, Imitation of Horace, Book III. Ode XXIX, line 66.
  • The acts of to-day become the precedents of to-morrow.
    • F. Herschell, speech in support of Lord Harrington's resolution (May 23, 1878).
  • What yesterday was fact to-day is doctrine.
    • Junius, in the dedication of his Letters.
  • Oh, the nursery is lonely and the garden's full of rain,
    And there's nobody at all who wants to play,
    But I think if I should only run with all my might and main,
    I could leave this dreary country of To-day.
    • Caroline McCormick, Road to Yesterday.
  • To-day what is there in the air
    That makes December seem sweet May?
    There are no swallows anywhere,
    Nor crocuses to crown your hair
    And hail you down my garden way.
    Last night the full moon's frozen stare
    Struck me, perhaps; or did you say
    Really—you'd come, sweet Fnend and fair!
    To-day?
    • Theopbile Marzials, Rondel.
  • Rise! for the day is passing,
    And you lie dreaming on;
    The others have buckled their armour,
    And forth to the fight have gone:
    A place in the ranks awaits you,
    Each man has some part to play;
    The Past and the Future are nothing,
    In the face of the stern To-day.
    • Adelaide Procter, Legends and Lyrics.
  • Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is but a dream. Today is a gift, cherish each moment.
    • Femi Obikunle and Jeff Kister, 2017

Misattributed

  • Oogway: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present".
    • Jonathan Aibel and Glen Berger, Kung Fu Panda, (2008).
      • "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, Today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present." (Regarded as an "anonymous poem", in Joan Chittister's Heart of Flesh (1998), p. 129; in Vital Issues: The Journal of African American Speeches (1998), Bethune-DuBois Publications, p. 27, and in Joan Rivers' "From Mother to Daughter" (1998), p. 30.)
      • "Yesterday may be History, Tomorrow is Mystery and Today is our Golden Opportunity!" (As quoted in H.S. Cheesbrough's Canada Lumberman, Volume 62 (1942), Southam-Maclean.
      • "Live today. The past is gone. Today is God's gift to us, whether it be a day of storm or sunshine. Tomorrow may never come, and that is immaterial." (From Friends' Intelligencer, Volume 91, No.1-26 (1934), p. 21)
      • "Yesterday is history; to-morrow is merely a hope; to-day is the only absolute asset of time that is yours." From Frank Pixley's Thoughts and Things (1912), in , Duffield & Company, p. 29.
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