America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Larry Elder

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
Charles W. Chesnutt

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith

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

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Thomas Kempis

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
Vivienne Westwood

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

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.
Brian De Palma

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
Frances Wright

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
Joel Osteen

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx

Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.
George Whitefield

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn

Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.
Anna Lindh

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
Wynton Marsalis

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

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Charles Reade

The law of 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.
James Allen