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.

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Running, Business

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

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Men, People

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Wise, Intelligent, Choices

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  John Ruskin

  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

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Believe, Acceptance

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

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• It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

  John Ruskin

  Simple, Simplicity, Complicated

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.15

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

  John Ruskin

  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!

  John Ruskin

  Father, Future, Men

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

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

  John Ruskin

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Justice, Hunger And Thirst

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

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

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

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Caring, Garden

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• When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Witty, Attitude

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• The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Ocean, Ignorance

  John Ruskin (1907). “The stones of Venice”

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

  John Ruskin

  Class, Two, People

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

  John Ruskin

  Mistake, Pride, Bottom

  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.

  John Ruskin

  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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• The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

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  Flower, Good Woman, Path

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

  John Ruskin

  Clever, Two, Answering Questions

  John Ruskin (1875). “Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which My Father Knew”, p.186

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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.

  John Ruskin

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

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Believe, Humility

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

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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.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Thinking, History

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

  John Ruskin

  Love, Family, Children

  The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 1 (1866)

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• Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

  John Ruskin

  Workout, Simplicity, Consumerism

  The Eagle's Nest ch. 5 (1872)

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