Top 100 A Harvest Quotes
#1. Chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering for another man's original sin, but the reaping of a harvest that we ourselves have sown. We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.
Emmet Fox
#2. Do your part to help reap a harvest, and trust God to do His part.
Katy Kauffman
#3. Do not expect a harvest if you haven't sown anything! God loves people who are hardworking, who are always doing something. He helps doers
Sunday Adelaja
#4. The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.
Samuel Smiles
#5. The hopes that, in my own heart sown,
And cherished by such sun and rain,
As Joy and transient Sorrow shed,
Have ripened to a harvest there:
Charlotte Bronte
#6. When the world decides to stop being greedy ... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.
Jess Glynne
#7. The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen
#8. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Anonymous
#9. Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.
Joyce Meyer
#10. What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#11. When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
#12. Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.
Sathya Sai Baba
#13. 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
#14. Plant a seed of greatness in your children. Speak a word of encourgement to someone who needs to hear it. Inspire someone to be a better person. One day you'll reap a harvest, and your world will become a better place to live.
George Foreman
#15. When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us-things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives.
Joyce Meyer
#16. It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.
Bill Cosby
#17. The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.
Herbert Read
#18. We all know that we must sow seed if we are to reap a harvest (Galatians 6:7). Sowing seed into the lives of other people is one sure way to reap a harvest in our own life.
Joyce Meyer
#19. In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown.
Faith Baldwin
#20. Apostles who do not save souls and establish churches are like farmers who do not produce a harvest.
David Cannistraci
#21. But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#22. Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?
Andy Stanley
#23. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B.C. Forbes
#24. You can't expect to reap a harvest that you're not willing to plant.
Yvonne Pierre
#25. The life above, when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below.
Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure;
Sow peace, and reap its harvest bright;
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor,
And find a harvest-home of light.
Horatius Bonar
#26. Our lives are a work of art. Plant seeds of love and respect and reap a harvest of prosperity and peace.
Joan Pillen
#27. The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato Tasso
#28. We cannot see attitudes, thoughts, or words, but they are also seeds that operate in the spiritual (unseen) realm and they also produce a harvest based on what was planted.
Joyce Meyer
#29. The Spirit is testifying that a new day is dawning. The stage of the world is being set for a fullness of a harvest and a genuine apostolic reformation in a new way.
Mark Chironna
#30. Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#31. There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#32. The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
#33. We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos.
Jack Gilbert
#34. Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
Sai Baba
#35. We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#36. A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Walter De La Mare
#37. 9Let us not become weary in doing good,o for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.p 10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do goodq to all people, especially to those who belong to the familyr of believers.
Anonymous
#38. How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
[Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]
Plautus
#39. A mansion begins with one brick.
A forest begins with one tree.
A harvest begins with one seed.
An ocean begins with one drop.
A friendship begins with one gesture.
A fire begins with one spark.
A revolution begins with one idea.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. Some Christians sow to the flesh every day and wonder why they do not reap holiness. Holiness is a harvest; whether we reap it or not depends almost entirely on what and where we sow.
John R.W. Stott
#41. Just like you can't reap a harvest without planting seeds, so you can't get without giving.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Sow the help of God into your daily battles, and reap a harvest of victory.
Katy Kauffman
#44. It is like we are having a harvest of destruction in our continent.
Sunday Adelaja
#45. A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#46. What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind. A harvest for those who find their way into my life and I into theirs.
Cindy McCormick Martinusen
#47. Before long four dozen balls lay scattered at the base of the fence, a harvest of dirty white fruit.
Chad Harbach
#49. How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?
Henry David Thoreau
#50. We are not here to loll and frolic but to bring in a harvest for God.
Don Richardson
#51. Tyrion smiled. "Lord Stannis has sailed from Dragonstone." Cersei bolted to her feet. "And yet you sit there grinning like a harvest-day pumpkin?
George R R Martin
#52. A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.
James Anthony Froude
#53. Eternal One: I am in control - calm and serene. I am watching quietly from where I dwell Just as surely as the heat shimmers in the blazing sun and the dewy mists cool the warmth of a harvest day.
Anonymous
#54. I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#55. The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.
George Edward Woodberry
#56. Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old.
Vachel Lindsay
#57. I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.
John Wooden
#58. The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.
George R R Martin
#59. Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.
Edward Brooke
#61. Our children are humans and deserve to be treated respectfully. Discipline doesn't include raging, screaming, abusing, neglecting, humiliating, or shaming our kids. God never treats us like that. That sort of discipline never produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.
Jen Hatmaker
#62. Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you'll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you'd get by succeeding. Ironic, isn't it?
Martha Beck
#63. Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.
R.S. Thomas
#64. We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.
Mario Batali
#65. It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.
Charles Darwin
#66. Life is not a harvest. Just because you have an apple doesn't mean you have an orchard. You have an apple. Put a fence around it. Once you have put a fence around everything you value, then you have the total circle of your heart.
Sheila Heti
#67. The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
William Wordsworth
#68. A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.
Peter Jackson
#69. Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.
Darrell Issa
#70. From the house of unbelief
to true religion
is a single breath;
From the world of doubt
to certainty
is a single breath;
Enjoy this precious single breath,
for the harvest
of our whole lives
is that same one breath.
Omar Khayyam
#71. I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.
Claude Chabrol
#72. O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!
O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!
O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!
A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.
Walt Whitman
#73. Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.
John Burroughs
#74. Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds like love, warmth, and appreciation, instead of seeds like disappointment, anger, and fear.
Tony Robbins
#75. There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest.
Jeff Olson
#76. The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
Frances Beinecke
#77. To understand the harvest of your soul against the background of seasonal rhythm should give you a sense of quiet delight at the arrival of this time in your life. It should give you strength and a sense of how the deeper belonging of your soul-world will be revealed to you.
John O'Donohue
#78. Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.
John Of Salisbury
#79. A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.
Nelson Mandela
#80. As far as my planting program goes, I simply broadcast rye and barley seed on separate fields in the fall ... while the rice in those areas is still standing. A few weeks after that I harvest the rice, and then spread its straw back over the fields as mulch.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#81. You have to wait for a fruit to ripe before you harvest.
You must also learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#82. There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there are no breaks or divisions - seed time flows on to flowering time and harvest time; no sooner is one thing dying than another is coming to life.
Susan Hill
#83. The strength of opening manhood is never so well employed as in practicing subserviency to God's revealed will; it lends a grace and a beauty to religion, and produces an abundant harvest.
Richard Mant
#84. I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.
Eyvind Kang
#85. Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.
Dave Heineman
#86. The fact that you lack the fruits is not a proof that you don't have seeds. It's not too late to drop your potentials into a good soil. Do it now; harvest awaits you soon!
Israelmore Ayivor
#87. Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless.
Thomas Malthus
#88. When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
Nell Newman
#89. He's the guy that the joke was wrote about: 'Is he a criminal lawyer?' 'Yes, very.
Dashiell Hammett
#90. If we have been diligent to hide the Word of God in our hearts, and if we continue to labor over that Word, we can be assured that in the time of harvest we will reap a bountiful reward if we faint not. (See Galatians 6:9.)
T.D. Jakes
#91. Say your prayers, think quietly what you should do, do it, and sleep. There is no man living, neither king nor emperor, can do more or better, or trust in a better harvest.
Ellis Peters
#92. Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.
Erma Bombeck
#93. I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.
Ezra Taft Benson
#94. In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.
Ben Shahn
#95. Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.
Agnes Smedley
#96. Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#97. If you plant junk, don't expect to harvest jewels.
Luke Taylor
#98. On this night of the Harvest Moon. They tossed bones into the "Bone Fire" and asked the yellow moon to shine its protection over them. (Today we call it a "Bonfire")
Nancy B. Brewer
#99. I've never seen Salisbury steak on a restaurant menu. It's only in frozen dinners. Is there something we should know about that? What IS Salisbury steak anyway? And where do they hunt or harvest the salisburies?
Kelli Jae Baeli
#100. Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees.
William Johnson Cory
