John Ruskin

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

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.

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.