Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Cursing the weather is not good farming

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.

'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.

My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.

Whatever success people have in a field, it's a result of hard work. If you ultimately succeed in one place, you must have worked hard there or somewhere else.

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.

Thinke of ease, but worke on.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

I was always compared to the Energizer Bunny in my consecutive game streak because every day I showed up and went to work and they said he keeps going and going and going, but a lot of people do that.

Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

There is no hope without endeavor.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.