Sowing Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Past, Important, Needs

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• 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

  Land, Numbers, Acres

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• I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St foin seed, & 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 foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.

  George Washington

  Marijuana, India, May

  George Washington's Letter to William Pearce, founders.archives.gov. February 24, 1794.

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• Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Agriculture, Farming, Difficult

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

  Martin Scorsese

  Fall, Empires, Study

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• 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

  Would Be, Fields, Wheat

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.365, Penguin

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

  Joel Osteen

  Blessing, Helping, Seeds

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• The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Pain, Disappointment, Hard Work

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.100, InterVarsity Press

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• When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.

  Steve Goodier

  Lying, Eye, Waiting

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• 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

  Unhappy, Different, Want

  Phil Pringle (2013). “You The Leader”, p.199, Faris Digital Solutions

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

  Pliny the Elder

  Exercise, Land, Mind

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• Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

  Khalil Gibran

  Doe, Sowing Seeds, Seeds

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• I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

  Miguel Indurain

  Dad, Father, Work

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Giving, Rich, Harvest

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Dec 11, 2015

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• If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Encouragement, People

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Blessing, People, Path

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• Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weed, Agriculture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.221, Grove Press

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• 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

  Blessing, Taking The High Road, Committed

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• It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Garden, Soil, Road To Success

  Orison Swett Marden (1916). “Everybody Ahead: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life”

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• 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

  Christian, Sea, Bears

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• Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Friendship, Thanksgiving

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Stars, Science

  "Les misérables".

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• Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.

  Lord Acton

  Strong, Ignorance, Men

  "The History of Freedom in Antiquity". Lord Acton's opening statement of his speech on February 28, 1877; later quoted in "The History of Freedom and Other Essays" edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, 1907.

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• A group of four cardinals wrote to [Pope] Francis accusing him of sowing confusion on important moral issues, and they asked for clarifications. He did not reply. And one of the signatories, the American Cardinal Raymond Burke, said if the pope does not clarify, he will proceed with what he called a formal correction of the pope after Christmas.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Issues, Confusion, Important

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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.

  J. C. Ryle

  Grace, Battle, Wish

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.194, Letcetera Publishing

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