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Work Quotes by John Ruskin
- In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels,…
- The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
- When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
- 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…
- All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
- Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
- The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn,…
- Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source…
- But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it.…
- Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world.
- 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…
- Architecture is the work of nations
- Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
- Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.
- Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
- 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…
- Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being…
- If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if,…
- The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
- The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.
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- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
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- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson