John Lubbock famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Motivational #Happiness #Letting Go
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
-- John Lubbock

#Inspirational #Being Happy #Attitude
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.
-- John Lubbock

#Education #Teacher #Nature
All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.
-- John Lubbock

#Horse #Mind #Contentment
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
-- John Lubbock

#Travel #Book #Library
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
-- John Lubbock

#Education #Appreciation #Teacher
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
-- John Lubbock

#Happiness #Life And Love #Violin
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
-- John Lubbock

#Worry #People #Anxiety
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
-- John Lubbock

#Beauty #Beautiful #Sunset
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
-- John Lubbock

#Inspirational #Success #Summer
Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
-- John Lubbock

#Love #Sympathy #Men
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
-- John Lubbock

#Believe #Judging #Judgment
Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
-- John Lubbock

#Mind #Results #Circumstances

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