John Ruskin Quotes About Work

Quotes about: Work

• 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

• In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  John Ruskin (1906). “Pre-Raphaelitism”, p.7, Рипол Классик

• The best work never was and never will be done for money.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Humor, Done

• No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Work, Perfect

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.183, University of Virginia Press

• 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

• In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Men, Order

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1860). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...”, p.429

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

  John Ruskin

  Work, Evil, Labor Day

• Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Self, Toil

• It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Two, Healthy

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories”, p.169, Cosimo, Inc.

• If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Wish, Kingdoms

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.62, John Ruskin

• Work first, and then rest.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Firsts

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.109

• There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Men, Gentleman

  John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.24

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