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Jealousy of other people's success is a sure sign that you feel unfulfilled in your own life. Seeing them enjoy the fruits of their labors is a painful reminder that you do not have what you want nor have you been actively seeking it.

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.

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.

Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.

Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

My fruit grows on other people’s trees.

My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and other have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.

One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.

One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.

One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.

One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?