LZ Granderson

Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.

American Journalist

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

Iranian Statesman

John Steinbeck

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

American Author

Sayed Kashua

Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.

Israeli Author

James McAvoy

I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.

Scottish Actor

Soren Kierkegaard

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Danish Philosopher

Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

English Writer

John Dewey

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

American Philosopher

Jean Monnet

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

French Politician

Tomi Lahren

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

Fruitless implies an effort made but without success, emphasizing disappointment.

Negative Outcome

Use 'fruitless' to indicate that time and effort did not lead to success.

Time and Effort

'Fruitless' also communicates that an outcome wasn't as expected or intended.

Expectations Unmet

Fruitless endeavors are those that yield no rewards or benefits.

No Rewards

Fruitless can imply that all actions lead to no achievement or advancement.

Achievement Lacking

Describes actions that fail to make any positive change or progress.

Ineffective Actions

Literally, fruitless describes plants not bearing fruit, often used metaphorically.

Literal Meaning

When not discussing plants, 'fruitless' metaphorically means no result was produced.

Metaphorical Use

 down an animal otherwise it is going to be just a fruitless exercise because the other big predators who does scavenge from other predators such as the eilers if they cannot manage to take their kill up into the tree they are obviously going to lose that so

Fruitless

Negative Outcome

Time and Effort

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