Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes

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

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

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.

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

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

Water the root to enjoy the fruit.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.