John Ruskin Quotes About Winning

Quotes about: Winning

• You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Winning, Evil

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Two Paths”, p.160, John Ruskin

• But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

  John Ruskin

  Kings, Fighting, Army

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.307, Courier Corporation

• High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Winning, Lovely

  John Ruskin (1859). “Modern Painters: (pt.4) Modern painters of many things”, p.35

• The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Winning, Helping

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.12, John Ruskin

• No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Fate, Winning

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