John Ruskin Quotes About Power
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
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The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
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The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.
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There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.
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It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
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