John Ruskin Quotes

John Ruskin was born in London, England. Educated at the University of Oxford, his first interest was poetry, and he later became an author and artist. He was well know for his work as art critic and social critic.

John Ruskin's quotes are still applicable today. May you find them motivation throughtout them.

Below are words of wisdom in the form of inspirational quotes and motivational quotes by John Ruskin:

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin

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

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
John Ruskin

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.
John Ruskin

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John Ruskin

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

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

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.
John Ruskin

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin

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

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

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin

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

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

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

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin

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

He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
John Ruskin

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
John Ruskin

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.
John Ruskin

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
John Ruskin

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin

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

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
John Ruskin

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
John Ruskin

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

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.
John Ruskin

The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.
John Ruskin

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

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

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

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin