John Ruskin Quotes

English - Writer February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900

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.

Nature Good Sunshine Rain

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Kindness Great Money Thought Worth

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

Effort Result Quality Brainy

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Beginning Mountains Scenery End

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Great Fish Powerful Free

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Love Work Success Together Skill

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Good Weather Bad Only

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Great Effort Person Great Person

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Love Thoughtful Colour Minds Most

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Relationship Man Great Humility

Top 10
John Ruskin
Quotes

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Good Great Gift Person

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Education Children Honesty Beginning

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Love Happiness Hope Man

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

Man Great Believe Humility Great Man

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Beautiful World Remember Useless

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Passion Experience Skill Force

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

Life Inspirational Sun Beginning

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Beauty Strength Patience Endurance

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

Person Reward Get Become

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Light Darkness Walk You

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

Great Pride Mistakes Bottom

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

Man Small Up Pretty

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Beauty Light Shadows Just

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Feelings Us Things Same

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Good Women Strength Men

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Happy Believe Done Enjoyment

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