John Ruskin Quotes

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

What you become is what counts.

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

To give your best is to receive the best.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

I worked hard to get stronger and better, and I'm really happy and satisfied.

If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it.

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

I think it's nice to work and then have success.

Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I think anybody that's worked hard and has built something and has been successful can testify to how, you know, how wonderful that was, how wonderful it still is.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.