John Ruskin Quotes

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• It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.

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  Motivational, Running, Business

  "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

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• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

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  Wise, Intelligent, Choices

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• There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

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  Inspirational, Men, People

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• Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

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  Heart, Caring, Garden

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• The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

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  Motivational, Believe, Acceptance

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin

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• Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

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  Appreciation, Nature, Sunset

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• When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

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  Father, Future, Men

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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  Mistake, Pride, Bottom

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

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• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

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  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

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  Motivational, Believe, Humility

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

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• One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

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  Anger, Looks, Penguins

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

  "Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.

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• All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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  Art, Drawing, Paper

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• People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

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  Class, Two, People

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• The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

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  Education, Justice, Hunger And Thirst

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• Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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  Love, Family, Children

  The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 1 (1866)

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• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

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  Art, Men, Hands

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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• The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

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  Christian, Letting Go, Men

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• Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

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  Travel, Journey, Different

  John Ruskin (1857). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 4. Of many things”

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• Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

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  Sunset, New Beginnings, Sunrise

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Art”, p.97, John Ruskin

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• When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

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  Heart, Thinking, History

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• All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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  Beautiful, Darkness, Gazing

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.101, University of Virginia Press

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• Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.108

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