Top 123 Sowing Quotes & Sayings

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.

The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

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.

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

When it comes to sowing doubt about democracy and fueling dissension among Americans, Mr. Putin is eating our lunch.

Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.

There weren't any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields, sowing seeds, working with animals, jumping in the river, climbing trees.

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

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.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Each day of my life I am sowing seeds that one day I will harvest.

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'.

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.

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.

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.

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.

If you can be a blessing to somebody else, you're sowing a seed for God to help you.

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are defective members. . . . While the Lord brings into the church those who are truly converted, Satan at the same time brings persons who are not converted into its fellowship. While Christ is sowing the good seed, Satan is sowing the tares. There are two opposing influences continually exerted on the members of the church. One influence is working for the purification of the church, and the other for the corrupting of the people of God.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.

Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

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.

Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.

There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.

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!

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.

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

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.

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.

Forbeare not sowing because of birds.

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

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.

What I'm sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here's some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow.

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.

Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law...Sow generously and you will reap generously.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

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.

I think once a person realizes that they are every day either sowing into their life either potential success, or sowing into their life potential failure, they would all of a sudden go okay, I've got to figure out what I'm going to do.

The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.

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.