John Ruskin Quotes

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

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.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

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

There is no wealth but life.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

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.

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

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults; in every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.