We reap what we sow

• You get what you earn. Paul Konerko
• Sow an action, reap a habit. Hannah More
• What goes around, comes around. Willie Nelson
• You’re going to reap just what you sow. Lou Reed
• As you have sown so shall you reap. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. Zig Ziglar
• What you sow, you reap. It’s a law of nature. Bob Proctor
• If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap. Andrew Carnegie
• Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow. Paulo Coelho
• You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. Stephen Covey
• There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap. Samuel Butler
• Since there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow. Peter Murphy
• Some shall reap that never sow And some shall toil and not attain. Madison Cawein
• Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust. Violet Fane
• I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
• Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get. Robert Collier
• Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. Soren Kierkegaard
• Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards. Brad Thor
• Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law…Sow generously and you will reap generously. Joyce Meyer
• To reap a perpetual harvest you need to sow a perpetual seed. I got a need for seed. Rod Parsley
• It is not God’s fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap. Swami Vivekananda
• As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Joseph Murphy
• When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. Frederick Douglass
• It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest. Orison Swett Marden
• He who serves the most, reaps the most, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. Robin Sharma
• Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown. Napoleon Hill
• I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap. Robert Louis Stevenson
• What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle. James Thomas Fields
• Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects. Horace Mann
• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. B. C. Forbes
• The law of the harvest is inexorable (impossible to stop or prevent) . As we sow, so shall we reap. Hugh B. Brown
• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine
• We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. Swami Vivekananda
• Everything you do is a seed that you sow. Seed bad, harvest bad. Seed good, harvest good. And the list goes on and on. Joyce Meyer
• Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind…what we sow is what we reap. Swami Vivekananda
• 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
• Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not. George Whitefield
• Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat… this is the law, we reap the crop we sow. Patience Strong
• Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That holds for men. That holds for towns. That holds for a whole country. Lalita Tademy
• Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Paul the Apostle
• You truly do reap what you sow, so that makes it so important for us to learn to love each other in the here and now. Suzanne Giesemann
• Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life’s latest sands are its sands of gold! Julia Caroline Dorr
• In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees. Francis Bacon
• The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. B. C. Forbes
• A little understanding of “As you sow, so shall you reap” is important, because then you can’t blame the condition you’re in on anyone else. George Harrison
• The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good. Helen Keller
• The thorns which I have reap’d are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. Lord Byron
• We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours. George Eliot
• 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
• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil
• 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
• After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments. Joseph William Martin, Jr.
• 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. Joel Osteen
• That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. Madonna Ciccone
• Sometimes, God is going to have you sow a seed. Sometimes, God is going to have you water a seed that someone else sows. Sometimes, God is going to have you reap where others have sowed and watered. Greg Laurie
• If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that’s when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you. Joel Osteen
• I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you’ll reap in abundance. Lauryn Hill
• Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. Khalil Gibran
• The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them. Leonard Ravenhill
• Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love. Nancy Leigh DeMoss
• God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent – it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills. Robert A. Heinlein
• People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I’ve come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on. Bob Losure
• You know the Scripture says “be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap.” And one day, I don’t know how they’re going to get it, but they’re going to get some of it back. They are scared to death and are more afraid now than we are. Fannie Lou Hamer
• You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting. Frederick William Robertson
• If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold. Dorothy Day
• We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?……. We make our own destiny. Swami Vivekananda
• Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives. Charles F. Haanel
• There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, “You shall reap what you sow.” This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we’ve got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we’ve left behind. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you. Regardless of who you are or what you do, if you are looking for the best way to reap the most reward in all areas of life, you should look for the good in every person and in every situation and adopt the golden rule as a way of life. Zig Ziglar
• To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead; to project our influences far into the future, and live beyond our time; to rule as the Kings of Thought, over men who are yet unborn; to bless with the glorious gifts of Truth and Light and Liberty those who will neither know the name of the giver, nor care in what grave his unregarded ashes repose, is the true office of a Mason and the proudest destiny of a man. Albert Pike
• If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late. Thomas Carlyle

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Examples of seeds we can sow to reap a harvest

• Sow a character, you reap your destiny. Robin Sharma
• He who sows courtesy reaps friendship. Saint Basil
• Who sows virtue ought to reap honour. Leonardo da Vinci
• Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom. Sivananda
• I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality. Carlo Petrini
• By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. Agesilaus II
• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. Francesco Guicciardini
• They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love. Saint Basil
• Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. Khalil Gibran
• Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year. Jack LaLanne
• In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it. Plautus
• Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain. Horatius Bonar
• What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. Meister Eckhart
• If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds. Benjamin Franklin
• If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you’re going to reap the benefits. Richard Sherman
• There’s no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you’ll reap the rewards. Jesse Metcalfe
• God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow. Joyce Meyer
• If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present. Mairead Corrigan
• Change your thoughts, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions change. Your world is a world of crystallized ideas, crystallized words. Sooner or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts. Florence Scovel Shinn
• 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
• And what is it to work with love? … It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. Work is love made visible Khalil Gibran

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Examples of seeds we should avoid sowing

• He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. Robert Louis Stevenson
• You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing. Rajneesh
• If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow. Rick Warren

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To reap what we sow is the law of karma

• There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That’s only true if you’re a farmer. Frederick Lenz
• Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap… We reap what we sow! We reap what we sow. The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law. Nina Hagen
• One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: ‘As you sow, so shall you reap.’ Rama Swami
• Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. Mary Browne
• Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind… what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success. Deepak Chopra
• In the beginning all souls were as a unity to the God-Force. As self added or subtracted that which was in keeping with God’s purpose, ye added or subtracted from the blessings ye might be conscious of in materiality. Thus karma is builded. And the law is perfect – what ye sow, ye reap. Edgar Cayce
• Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
• Law of Karma: The Law of Cause and Effect, one of the Universal Laws. We each reap what we sow in life. We may reap immediately (instant karma) or at some future time, or as expected by those who believe in reincarnation, in a future lifetime. All karma earned, whether good or bad, must be experienced, unless cleared through forgiveness or some act of genuine contrition. Alan H. Dawe
• When we begin to understand the concept of Karma we will never ever blame God for anything that happens to us. We will realise that we are responsible for all that happens to us. As we sow, so shall we reap. Rich or poor, saint or sinner, miser or philanthropist, learned or illiterate … This is the Universal Law that applies to individuals, to whole communities, societies, nations and races. As we sow, so shall we reap. Dada Vaswani
• Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn… If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. What goes around comes around… Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn’t predestine anyone or anything. We create our own causes, and karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance. Mary T Browne
• In America, karma is best expressed in popular phrases like what goes around, comes around and what you sow, you will reap. Karma has also been referred to as having a boomerang effect where the thoughts and actions that you send out into the world turn around and come back at you… Jesus says, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Karma goes a step further and dictates that What you do unto others will come back to you. I think Jesus and the Hindus really had the same idea. Think about that the next time you want to say or do something nasty to someone else! Carmen Harra