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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. -- Martin Scorsese
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. -- Fred Allen
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. -- Robert Grosseteste
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday. -- Joyce Meyer
Each day of my life I am sowing seeds that one day I will harvest. -- Gautama Buddha
Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts. -- John C. Maxwell
The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will. -- Albert Einstein
The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different. -- Stephen Covey
The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others. -- John C. Maxwell
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. -- Edwin Way Teale
There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown. -- Napoleon Hill
Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow. -- Je Tsongkhapa
Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come. -- Joel Osteen
There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you. -- Joel Osteen
Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story. -- William Lane Craig
Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future. -- Ludwig von Mises
I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills. . . Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. loin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where. -- George Washington
Sowing seeds of kindness always reaps a crop of heavenly blessings. -- Rebecca Barlow Jordan
Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law...Sow generously and you will reap generously. -- Joyce Meyer
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die. -- Michael Redhill
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. -- Gary Ryan Blair
Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing. -- Tom Vilsack
Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience, that is like a magic box full of brains. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping. -- George Muller
If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game. -- Magnus Scheving
Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families. -- Ellen G. White
I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do. -- Garret Dillahunt
Forbeare not sowing because of birds. -- George Herbert
Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them. -- Shannon Fife
Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
America just reaped what it had been sowing. -- Malcolm X
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. -- Agesilaus II
To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word. -- Matthew Henry
Our mind is like a field, and performing actions is like sowing seeds in that field. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction. -- Beverly LaHaye
In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight. -- Thomas Tusser
What I'm sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here's some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow. -- LL Cool J
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred. -- C. S. Lewis
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred. -- C. S. Lewis
in your deeds and in your works, don't expect to start reaping just as you start sowing. -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you can be a blessing to somebody else, you're sowing a seed for God to help you. -- Joel Osteen
The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing. -- Georgina Anne Taylor
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies. -- Pliny the Elder
The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
God guarantees that His Word will not return void. He doesn't guarantee that the return will be immediate. Keep sowing! -- Steven Furtick
I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing. -- T. S. Eliot
Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary -- Dante Alighieri
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. -- Martin Luther
Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire. -- Malcolm Forbes
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you're sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read. -- Guy Kawasaki
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil. -- Will Durant
Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse. -- John Lewis
Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing. -- George Meredith
At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love! -- Charles Dickens
He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation. -- George S. Clason
Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair -- Pope Benedict XVI
The 2014 elections are not about winning or losing, but of ensuring a bright future for India. It is about sowing the seeds for a 'Bhavya' and a 'Divya Bharat'. -- Narendra Modi
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover. -- Wendell Berry
[H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation. -- George S. Clason
A teacher says "I am sowing the seeds of revolution." At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty. -- Narendra Modi
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition. -- Vance Havner
The things we do today - sowing seeds, or sharing simple truths of Christ - people will someday refer to as the first things that prompted them to think of Him. -- George Matheson
When you are committed to doing what's right, you are sowing seeds for God's blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required. -- Joel Osteen
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping. -- Faith Baldwin
He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves. -- William J. Clinton
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We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. -- Alexander Pope
What we preach is what we get. We are farmers sowing seed. If we are unhappy with the harvest we're reaping, we should sow different seed. If we want different results, we preach different messages. -- Phil Pringle
The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny. -- Paramahansa Yogananda

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