John Ruskin Quotes
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
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We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
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This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
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This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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There is no wealth but life.
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.