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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge, Plant, Harvest

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
Bob Marley

Battle, Victory, Talk

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn

Maturity, Ability, Complain

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
Joel Osteen

Long, Saying, Enough

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

Great, Nation, Bear

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

Men, Freedom, Blessings

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

Character, Law, Destiny

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard

Patience, Cannot, Necessary

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx

Love, Men, Landlords

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler

Before, Leap, Sow

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart

Action, Shall, Plant

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
James Madison

War, Government, Support

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass

Men, Wind, Expect

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith

Love, Men, Country

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
Ralph Ransom

Before, Joy, Labor

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Charles Reade

Character, Destiny, Act

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
Robert Collier

Give, Before, Sow

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
Frances Wright

Good, Truth, Courage

You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.
Joseph Prince

Good, God, Cannot

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Robert Collier

Good, Giving, Cannot

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
Charles W. Chesnutt

Life, Change, Men

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
Vivienne Westwood

Money, Financial, General

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
Wynton Marsalis

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

Help, Nothing, Leaving

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Thomas a Kempis

Knowledge, Live, Rather

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Larry Elder

Government, Failure, Greatest

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Hope, May, Cannot

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini

Return, Actions, Generous

Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.
Anna Lindh

Able, Countries, Trade

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