For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!

Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd…

— Allison Janney

Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.

— Tunku Abdul Rahman

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

— Douglas Wilson

“songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.”

— JRR Tolkein

“Gossip's like jam; it don't bear fruit if you don't spread it.”

— Jan Watson

“Of the thousands of flowers that blossom on a tree only a few will bear fruit. And out of those few fruits, insects and…

— Sudha Murty

A tree that does not blossom, will bear no fruit.

— Jeffrey Fry

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

— Abraham Maslow

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

— Jimmy Carter

The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“My father used to say the seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”

— Joe Abercrombie

Even a broken tree can bear fruit

— Rick Warren

“Whatever firm decisions (nischaya) you have made; only those will bear fruit. You do not have to do anything else.”

— Dada Bhagwan

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to…

— Seneca the Younger

“Jon, could there be honor in a lie, if it were told for a...good purpose? - Samwell”

— George R.R. Martin