John Ruskin Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

• When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

  John Ruskin

  Father, Future, Men

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.188, Courier Corporation

• The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

  John Ruskin

  Rewards, Labor

• Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

• If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

  John Ruskin

  Law, Toil, Want

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.439

• When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Effort, Grows

  John Ruskin (1871). “Works. (Author's Ed.)”, p.59

• See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Teaching, Science

• Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Happiness, Strong

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. V: Of mountain beauty”, p.328

• Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Evil, Labor Day

• Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

  John Ruskin

  Land, Taxation, Literature

• No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

  John Ruskin

  Discovery, Effort, Toil

• Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

  John Ruskin

  Soul, Individuality, May

  John Ruskin (1905). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin”

• But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.

  John Ruskin

  Moving, Men, Fire

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.237

• There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

  John Ruskin

  Differences, Leaving, Intellectual

  John Ruskin (1855). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.82

• 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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