John Ruskin Quotes About Work
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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 man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
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The best work never was and never will be done for money.
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Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
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No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
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Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
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There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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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 be separated with impunity.
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Work first, and then rest.
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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 of his work.
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If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
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