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

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

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

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

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

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

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

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.

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

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.

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.

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

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

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

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

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.

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

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

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

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.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

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

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.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

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.

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

As soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker. Afterwards just a bum.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?