9 John Ruskin Quotes

John Ruskin (1819-1900) was an influential artist, writer, and philosopher during the British Victorian Era.

In recent decades, he’s gained renewed attention for the many motivational quotes plucked from his writings.

Here are my 10 favorite.

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

  2. What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.

  3.  When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

  4. The best things in life aren’t things.

  5.  Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  6.  Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

  7.  People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

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

  9. I know well that happiness is in the little things.

Ray Davis