Quotes by John Ruskin

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color...

#Cheerfulness

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking...

#Destiny, #Happiness, #Responsibility

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature...

#Evil

Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is...

#Faults

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The...

#Humility

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the...

#Ideas

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power

#Imagination

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and...

#Duty, #Future, #Obligation

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a...

#Art, #Perfection, #Work

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

#Pride

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

#Quality

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal

#Race