Bearing Fruit Quotes

• Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Fruit, Produce, Foliage

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 26, 1799.

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• It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives.? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands, feet, and heart you are preaching the devil’s gospel, and setting up an antichrist by your practical unholiness?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Hands, Feet

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• A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

  Stephen King

  Love, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

  John F. Kennedy

  Growth, Fruit, Process

  "John F. Kennedy: 1963 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to November 22, 1963" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1964.

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  Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mother Teresa (1997). “No Greater Love”

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• The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Success, Patience

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• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Wedding

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• Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

  Walter Scott

  Spring, Autumn, Tree

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• Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

  Albert Einstein

  School, Tree, Ladders

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• Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

  William James

  Inspirational, Feelings, Path

  "The Principles of Psychology".

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• The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

  George Santayana

  Soul, Littles, Fruit

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.136, Indiana University Press

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• In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Educational, Book

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Words Of Wisdom, Waste, Fruit

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  Crazy, Men, Fifty

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• Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  Crazy, War, Flower

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