Life Quotes by John Ruskin

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

— John Ruskin

There is no wealth but life.

— John Ruskin

The best thing in life aren't things.

— John Ruskin

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

— John Ruskin

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

— John Ruskin

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

— John Ruskin

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

— John Ruskin

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

— John Ruskin

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

— John Ruskin

Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.

— John Ruskin

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

— John Ruskin

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never…

— John Ruskin

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had…

— John Ruskin

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human…

— John Ruskin

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort…

— John Ruskin

All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that…

— John Ruskin

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful…

— John Ruskin

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as…

— John Ruskin

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into…

— John Ruskin

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in…

— John Ruskin

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal…

— John Ruskin

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but…

— John Ruskin

There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life…

— John Ruskin

God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are…

— John Ruskin

Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be…

— John Ruskin

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words;…

— John Ruskin

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into…

— John Ruskin

Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of…

— John Ruskin

“In all buying, consider, first, what condition of existence you cause in the producers of what you buy; secondly, whether the sum…

— John Ruskin

In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come…

— John Ruskin

“But if you can fix some conception of a true human state of life to be striven for — life, good for…

— John Ruskin

“The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign…

— John Ruskin

But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal…

— John Ruskin

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

— John Ruskin

“For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.”

— John Ruskin

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

— John Ruskin

“Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its…

— John Ruskin

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

— John Ruskin

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

— John Ruskin

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

— John Ruskin