Inspirational John Ruskin Quotes

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

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

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

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.