These seed quotes will inspire you. Seed, a small object produced by a plant from which a new plant can grow or a flowering plant’s unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging seed quotes, seed sayings, and seed proverbs.
Best Seed Quotes
- “Life is the soil, our choices, and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.” ~ Richard Paul Evans
- “Inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest.” ~ Farrah Gray
- “Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” ~ Debby Boone , Seed quotes change
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“This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow’s happiness grow.” ~ Margaret Lindsay
- “Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.” ~ Lauryn Hill
- “Thought is the seed of action.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Success is… knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” ~ John C. Maxwell
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Never underestimate the importance of the beginning. Of anything. The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come.” ~ Carolyn Coman
- “Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.” ~ Joan D. Chittister
- “We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate – thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?” ~ Jack Kornfield
- “And there’s a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don’t grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don’t grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows
where some good little thing that you’ve done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?” ~ Pete Seeger
- “Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.” ~ Rumi
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“To see things in the seed, that is genius.” ~ Laozi
- “We must sow the seed, not hoard it.” ~ Saint Dominic
- “The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.” ~ Henri Nouwen
- “Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.” ~ Sophie Swetchine
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“The whole fruit is already present in the seed.” ~ Tertullian
- “Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.” ~ Jean Houston
- “A tree says:
My strength is trust.
I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me.
I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else.
I trust that God is in me.
I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.” ~ Hermann Hesse - “We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.” ~ Martha Washington
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“Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
- “Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” ~ Napoleon Hill
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“The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.” ~ Kate Elliott
- “When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.” ~ Thubten Chodron
- “Each day of my life I am sowing seeds that one day I will harvest.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “Your thoughts are seeds, and the harvest you reap will depend on the seeds you plant.” ~ Rhonda Byrne
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“One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.” ~ Michael Scott
- “Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most important and indispensable factor for all growth and development. It is in the tranquility and quiet of the night that the seed slowly sprouts from under the soil. The bud opens in the depth of the most silent hours. So also, in a state of peace and love, people evolve, grow in their distinctive culture, and develop perfect civilization.” ~ Sivananda
- “Every moment and every event of everyman’s life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.” ~ Thomas Merton
- “Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being the gardener.” ~ John de Ruiter
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“I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.” ~ Russell Conwell
- “You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the art of gardening. In each one of us there are flowers and there is also garbage. The garbage is the anger, fear, discrimination, and jealousy within us. If you water the garbage, you will strengthen the negative seeds. If you water the flowers of compassion, understanding, and love, you will strengthen the positive seeds. What you grow is up to you.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.” ~ Sathya Sai Baba
- “During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.” ~ Martha Beck
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“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree’s way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.” ~ May Sarton
- “They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.” ~ Tom Waits
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“There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.” ~ David O. McKay
- “Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
- “When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.” ~ Rumi
- “I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become. That’s not a seed, any more than you’re just a boy.” ~ Dr. Seuss
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“Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.” ~ E. B. White
- “Within the seed of your desire is everything necessary for it to blossom to fulfillment. And Law of Attraction is the engine that does the work. Your work is just to give it a fertile growing place in order to expand.” ~ Esther Hicks
- “We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert–that is the path society must follow.” ~ Masanobu Fukuoka
- “Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body’s element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.” ~ Khalil Gibran
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“There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.” ~ Rumi
- “Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.” ~ Muriel Rukeyser
- “I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.” ~ Immanuel Kant
- “Every person is born with a seed of greatness.” ~ Myles Munroe
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“Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.” ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
- “Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred law and covenant with Mother Earth; Respectful care brings abundance. If you take, you must give back-Return the gift.” ~ Marilou Awiakta
- “If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.” ~ Pablo Neruda
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“Because of them, I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.” ~ Sojourner Truth
- “The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gas mask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “Affliction comes to us all …not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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“… within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.” ~ Susie Orbach
- “I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.” ~ Rebecca Solnit
