Top 356 Fruitful Quotes & Sayings

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

It's hard to have a fruitful romantic life when I'm never in one place for long.

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

Be fruitful, and multiply.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Speech should be fruitful as well as free.

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

Spiritual knowledge is fruitful only when it is applied

Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.

I try not to go down the 'what if' road very often. It isn't fruitful and just makes you feel crummy.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.

Only love makes fruitful the soul.

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

My collaborations with V. Radhakrishram and B. G. Clark were especially fruitful.

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.

Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Focus on fruitful relationships that bring you closer to Jesus Christ.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Fruitful is the entire life of those, who feel hunger for the Name of the Lord in their minds.

The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

What is fruitful alone is true.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Humility, which is a virtue, is always fruitful in good works.

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.