John Ruskin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”

“It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.”

“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.”

“I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.”

“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”

“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.”

“The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.”

“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”

“A book worth reading is worth buying.”