As you sow you shall reap. [ Proverb ]
As you sow, you are like to reap. [ Butler ]
That which you sow you must reap. [ Proverb ]
If you would reap money, sow money. [ Proverb ]
As the ancients wisely say
Have a care o' the main chance,
And look before you ere you leap;
For as you sow you are like to reap. [ Butler ]
Tomorrow yet would reap today.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]
He that would reap well must sow well. [ Proverb ]
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 ]
He that sows iniquity shall reap sorrow. [ Proverb ]
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. [ Bible ]
He that sows thistles shall reap prickles. [ Proverb ]
Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap;
Who sows the false will reap the vain;
Erect and sound thy conscience keep,
From hollow words and deeds refrain. [ Horatius Bonar ]
Sow good works and you shalt reap gladness. [ Proverb ]
Where is the dust that has not been alive?
The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors;
From human mould we reap our daily bread. [ Young ]
Who waits until the winds shall silent keep,
Will never have the ready hour to sow;
Who watcheth clouds will have no time to reap. [ Helen Hunt Jackson ]
For he that sows in craft does reap in jealousy. [ Middleton ]
You must not hope to reap wheat where you sowed none. [ Proverb ]
The strong must build stout cabins for the weak;
Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store;
For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak. [ Eugene Lee-Hamilton ]
They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same. [ Bible ]
To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early,
For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly. [ Burns ]
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done. [ Plautus ]
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. [ Bible ]
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. [ Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People ]
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. [ Byron ]
The law of the 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. [ G. D. Boardman ]
Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons or serious discourses, are like the red and blue flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. [ Swift ]
Let every mother consider herself as an instrument in the hands of Providence - let her reflect on the immense importance the proper education of one single family may eventually prove; and that, while the fruit of her labors may descend to generations yet unborn, she will herself reap a glorious reward. [ Miss Hamilton ]