John Ruskin Quotes

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

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.

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank… the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

All of one’s life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.