John Ruskin Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• There is no wealth but life.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Wisdom, Wealth

  'Unto this Last' (1862) essay 4, 77

• Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Art, Political

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

• Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Forever, Noble

  "Pearls for Young Ladies".

• 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

• He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Trust, Interest

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.319

• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Mistake, Errors

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.171

• The best thing in life aren't things.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Best Things, Values

• Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Death, Law

  Unto This Last Essay 3 (1862)

• 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”

• 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

• Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Beautiful, Race

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 6-9 of leaf beauty. of cloud beauty. of ideas of relation”, p.4

• It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Men, Broken

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

• Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Hate, Hands

• It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Three, Circumstances

• Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Book, Reading

  Sesame and Lilies preface (1865)

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