Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today."
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Harvest
65 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Wordsworth
Poet
"Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow."
Albert Schweitzer
Philosopher, Theologian
"It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap."
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"How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?"
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"I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors."
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"What can the harvest hope for..."
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"The reaper does not listen to the harvest."
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"Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest."
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"Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant"
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"Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest."
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"When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm."
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"Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest."
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"The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition."
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"The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust."
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"For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired."
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