John Lubbock Quotes

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

Rest is by no means a waste of time.

If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

Do what you will, only do something.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.