John Ruskin Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

  John Ruskin

  Patience, Strong, Failure

• To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Knowledge And Power, Sight

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

• Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?
  Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?
  Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet-
  Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Sweet, Hands

  John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

• It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Failure, Long

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.139

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