John Ruskin Quotes

Browse 6 quotes from John Ruskin, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
— John Ruskin
A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.
— John Ruskin
Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
— John Ruskin
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
— John Ruskin
The first test of a truly great man is his humility.
— John Ruskin
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
— John Ruskin

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