John Ruskin Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

  John Ruskin

  Pride, Someone You Love, Useless

• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

  John Ruskin

  Mistake, Pride, Bottom

  John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

• All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Pride, Occasional

  "Modern Painters".

• And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

  John Ruskin

  Pride, Done, Rivalry

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

• Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

  John Ruskin

  Truth, Pride, Childhood

  John Ruskin (1855). “Modern Painters: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2 Of truth”, p.29

• We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.

  John Ruskin

  Pride, Self, People

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.148, Parlor Press LLC

• The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Fall, Pride

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