Quotes by John Ruskin

“The quality of life is more important than life itself”

“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.”

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”

“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 mans lawful prey.”

“There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that mans lawful prey.”

“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful”

“Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.”

“A book worth reading is worth buying.”

“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.”

“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I dont 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.”

“Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty”

“The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.”

“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”

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

“Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.”

“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”

“The highest reward for a mans toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.