Waste not a moment on yesterday's misfortunes, for this is…

“If you waste time watering a fruitless tree, fruitful ones may die of thirst.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

— Napoleon Hill

I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September…

— Franklin Pierce

If there is no effort towards the relationship, it's like irrigating a fruitless trees.

— Nino Jobo Lucy

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

— Mason Cooley

“He was a vegetable, so trying to change his mind was fruitless.”

— Jarod Kintz

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

— Matthew Henry

“But to this Orc-work such a life as we lead has brought us. Lawless and fruitless all our deeds have been, serving only ourselves,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

— Thomas Watson

Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained?...The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless.

— Sergey Akhromeyev

“How weak and fruitless must be any word of mine.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“You just cannot reason with a turnip. It's fruitless.”

— Gary Hays

Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.

— Peace Pilgrim

To exist in an echo chamber and only talk to people with whom we agree is fruitless.

— Tomi Lahren

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

— Victor Hugo