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

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Nature, Sunset

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

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

  John Ruskin

  People, Trying, Judgment

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.354, University of Virginia Press

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• You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Medicine, Advice

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• That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Always Happy, Knows

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.320

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• No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

  John Ruskin

  Rain, Individual, Responsible

  "Natural Disasters Condolence Speech - Adam Bandt Discusses Natural Disasters and Climate Change". adam-bandt.greensmps.org.au. February 09, 2011.

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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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• 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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• It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

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  Liberty, Literature, Honorable

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

  John Ruskin

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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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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• 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 greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

  John Ruskin

  Rewards, Labor

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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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• 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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• Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

  John Ruskin

  Half, Language, Dependent

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.9

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• We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

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  Heart, Purpose, World

  John Ruskin (1899*). “John Ruskin's Works”

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• Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Lying, Heart

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Works of John Ruskin”, p.109

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• The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Critics, Agree

  John Ruskin (1855). “Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, the Old and New Societies of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of British Artists and the French Exhibition”, p.11

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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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