121 Harvest Quotes

Following is our list of harvest quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about garden harvest.

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Famous Harvest Quotes

You harvest what you sow. — Turkish Proverbs

The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth. — Denis Waitley

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. — Edwin Way Teale

Honor the hands that harvest your crops. - Dolores Huerta

Honor the hands that harvest your crops. — Dolores Huerta

You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest. — Jeff Olson

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act. — Vandana Shiva

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time — Phil Noble

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. - William Blake

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. — William Blake

Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others. — Sathya Sai Baba

TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY, AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. — Ovid

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. — William Blake

When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear. — John Dryden

Our job is not the harvest, our job is the seed. — Carl Lentz

Short Harvest Quotes

  • Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. — Douglas William Jerrold
  • Inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest. — Farrah Gray
  • Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. — David Bly
  • We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. — Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Whoever wants to harvest will sow. — German proverbs
  • Old age, to the unlearned, is winter; to the learned, it’s harvest time. — Yiddish Proverbs
  • A bad wife spells a hundred years of bad harvest. — Japanese Proverbs
  • A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes — Greek Proverbs

Harvest Image Quotes

Harvest quote Always do your best. What you plant now will harvest later.
Always do your best. What you plant now will harvest later.
Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye. - William Wordsworth quote

Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye. — William Wordsworth

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. - Og Mandino quote

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

Harvest quote What you plan now, you will harvest later
What you plan now, you will harvest later

Good Harvest Quotes

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. — Paul the Apostle

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

I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day. — Og Mandino

Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well. — Shunryu Suzuki

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

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. — Islom Karimov

The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break. — Chinua Achebe

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. — Willa Cather

Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake — Andy Partridge

Garden Harvest Quotes

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. — Billy Graham

Knowledge is a garden. If it isn’t cultivated, you can’t harvest it. — African Proverbs

Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers. — Carl Sandburg

The peasant celebrates with song and dance the harvest safely gathered in. The cup of Bacchus flows freely, and many find their relief in deep slumber. — Antonio Vivaldi

It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are. — Peter Cundall

Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes. — Marge Piercy

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation. — Susan Collins

A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom. — Nelson Mandela

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest. — Stephen Covey

Fall Harvest Quotes

Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees. — John Hancock

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. — Sharon Kay Penman

As far as my planting program goes, I simply broadcast rye and barley seed on separate fields in the fall . . . while the rice in those areas is still standing. A few weeks after that I harvest the rice, and then spread its straw back over the fields as mulch. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Most calves and fawns will soon die. Only the luckiest and fittest will survive. Therefore either hunters or Mother Nature can take them. The logical harvesting strategy is to take calves or fawns during the fall hunting seasons, before winter can waste them. — Valerius Geist

Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream. — Ernest Dowson

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer — Unknown

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

Corn Harvest Quotes

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. — Jean Froissart

Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops. — Ken Kercheval

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean. — Saadi Shirazi

See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind. — Warren G. Bennis

Happy Harvest Quotes

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet mind. Anchor your thoughts on peace, poise, security and divine guidance and your mind will be productive of happiness. — Joseph Murphy

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

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. — Austin O'Malley

When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us-things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives. — Joyce Meyer

The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy. — John C. Maxwell

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. — Henry David Thoreau

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed. — Graham Greene

Harvest Time Quotes

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done. — W. E. B. Du Bois

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

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need. — Gillian Anderson

The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night. — Donald C. Peattie

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers. — Edward Abbey

The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing. — Solomon

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big. — Jim Rohn

Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons. — John Donne

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character. — Henry David Thoreau

A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit. — Peter Jackson

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More Harvest Quotes

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

When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity. — Joan D. Chittister

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime. — W. E. B. Du Bois

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest. — Mary Morrissey

I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten. — Jenny Colgan

It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival. — Arthur W. Pink

The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come.And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does. — Robin Sharma

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

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

Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring. — Ralph Marston

I believed in my product. I loved my product. I loved to touch the creams, smell them, look at them, carry them with me. A person has to love her harvest if she’s to expect others to love it. And beauty was such a bountiful harvest. — Estee Lauder

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

We must sow even after a bad harvest. — Danish Proverbs

The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes. — Ray Bradbury

After the harvest, there’s no hay. — Filipino Proverbs

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. — Bill Meyer

I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget. — Eugene B. Sledge

The more help in the cornfield, the smaller the harvest. — Zimbabwean Proverbs

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