Quote: Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: What we see depends mainly on what we look for. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: 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. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. [Sir John Lubbock]
Quote: A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. [Sir John Lubbock]