John Ruskin Quotes 27 to 48 – Inspirational Words of Wisdom

John Ruskin Quotes 27 to 48

  1. I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
    John Ruskin
    Believe
  2. In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
    John Ruskin
    Mistakes
  3. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
    John Ruskin
    Wealth
  4. People are perpetually afraid of doing wrong; but unless they are doing its reverse energetically, they do it all day long, and the degree does not matter.
    John Ruskin, A New Year’s Message from 100 Years Ago
    Not Perfect
  5. To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
    John Ruskin
    Happy
  6. 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
    Action
  7. 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.
    John Ruskin
    Beautiful
  8. Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
    John Ruskin
    Work
  9. A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. 
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  10. A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
    John Ruskin
    Effort
  11. Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back,
    John Ruskin
    Children
  12. People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
    John Ruskin
    Words of Encouragement
  13. To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meritorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty.
    John Ruskin
    Truth
  14. Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
    John Ruskin
    Patience
  15. It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money – that’s all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youbought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.
    John Ruskin
    Wise
  16. Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
    John Ruskin
    New Beginning
  17. 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
    Honesty
  18. 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
    Love
  19. 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
    Sunshine
  20. 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
    Success
  21. A book worth reading is worth buying. 
John Ruskin

  22. A book worth reading is worth buying.
    John Ruskin
    Book
  23. 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
    Good
  24. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.
    John Ruskin
    Character

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