Fruit quotes
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"Follow your dreams and work hard. There's no replacement for hard work, and that's true for any field. If you work hard at it, you're going to see the fruits of your labor, I guarantee it."
"Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love."
"There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow."
"Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead."
"The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard."
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"God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works."
"Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen."
"When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness."
"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
"The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding"
"The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit."
"Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit."
"It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor."
"Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration."
"All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become."
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
"Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own."
"Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits."
"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit."
"Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed."
"Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine"."
"Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit."
"The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action."
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."
