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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

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.

Motivational, Running, Business

"The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Inspirational, Men, People

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

Wise, Intelligent, Choices

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Motivational, Believe, Acceptance

John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Appreciation, Nature, Sunset

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

Rain, Individual, Responsible

"Natural Disasters Condolence Speech - Adam Bandt Discusses Natural Disasters and Climate Change". adam-bandt.greensmps.org.au. February 09, 2011.

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

Father, Future, Men

John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.188, Courier Corporation

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

Heart, Caring, Garden

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Simple, Simplicity, Complicated

John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.15

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

Class, Two, People

The best thing in life aren't things.

Life, Best Things, Values

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Nature, Rain, Sunshine

"Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

Anger, Looks, Penguins

John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Life, Three, Circumstances

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Work, Humor, Done

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

Education, Justice, Hunger And Thirst

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.

Believe, Mean, Humility

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Pay, Can Do, You Choose

John Ruskin (1800). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century”

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

Reputation, Born, Remembered

John Ruskin (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.119

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Motivational, Believe, Humility

John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Mistake, Pride, Bottom

John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

Mother, Passion, Law

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