John Ruskin Quotes About Motivational
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
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It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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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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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
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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
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
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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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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
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