John Ruskin Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Family, Children

  The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 1 (1866)

• God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

  John Ruskin

  God, Religious, Giving

  "The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation".

• Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

  John Ruskin

  Clever, Work, Men

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.69, Parlor Press LLC

• Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, Giving, Pleasure

  "The Stones of Venice".

• We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Names, Giving

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.180, University of Virginia Press

• 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

• How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

  John Ruskin

  Book, Long, People

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

• Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Men, Giving

  John Ruskin (1918). “Selections and Essays”, Scholarly Press

• Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

  John Ruskin

  Giving Up, Men, Titles

  1880 Open letter to EnglishTrades Unions, 29 Sep.

• It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Giving, Educate

• Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.

  John Ruskin

  Girl, Night, Giving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 122, 1895.

• Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.

  John Ruskin

  Kindness, Men, Giving

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.149

• Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Listening, Saint

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.129

• Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

  John Ruskin

  Dust, Cities, Giving

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.149, Courier Corporation

• It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

  John Ruskin

  Sacrifice, Giving, Religion

  John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.17

• God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Duty, Giving Time

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.66, John Ruskin

• We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

  John Ruskin

  Sex, Equality, Giving

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

• To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Literature, Alms

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.66, John Ruskin

• God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.

  John Ruskin

  Father, Giving, Wish

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.132

• He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Dust, Giving

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.6

• You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.

  John Ruskin

  Girl, Flower, Fall

  John Ruskin (1894). “Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin”

• Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Cost, Produce

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.190, John Ruskin

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