There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist — John Lubbock Exercise Copy Share Image
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them — John Lubbock Ability Copy Share Image
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. — John Lubbock Character Copy Share Image
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars. — John Lubbock Cellars Copy Share Image
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. — John Lubbock God Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. — John Lubbock Arithmetic Copy Share Image
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish… — John Lubbock Children Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness. — John Lubbock Clever Copy Share Image
“If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.” — John Lubbock Advice Copy Share Image
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock Doe Copy Share Image
Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the… — John Lubbock Asks Copy Share Image
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others. — John Lubbock Contribution Copy Share Image
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us… — John Lubbock Earth Copy Share Image
It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are… — John Lubbock Blessing Copy Share Image
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur… — John Lubbock Clouds Copy Share Image
Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch… — John Lubbock Battle Copy Share Image
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid… — John Lubbock Compound interest Copy Share Image
“To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire… — John Lubbock Ambition Copy Share Image
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of… — John Lubbock Delight Copy Share Image
This is a great way to become more conscious. Your intention and motives are fundamental to the results you will receive. Set… — John Lubbock Conscious Copy Share Image
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. — John Lubbock Forfeit Copy Share Image
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. — John Lubbock Happiness Copy Share Image
A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind. — John Lubbock Business Copy Share Image
However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning. — John Lubbock Different Copy Share Image
Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged. — John Lubbock Beaten Copy Share Image
“A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.” — John Lubbock Education Copy Share Image
A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. — John Lubbock Brightness Copy Share Image
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color… — John Lubbock Art Copy Share Image
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. — John Lubbock Believe Copy Share Image
Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them,… — John Lubbock Enemies Copy Share Image
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock Bags Copy Share Image
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish… — John Lubbock Doubt Copy Share Image
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance. — John Lubbock Ignorance Copy Share Image
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble. — John Lubbock Acts of heroism Copy Share Image
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. — John Lubbock Beautiful Copy Share Image
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or… — John Lubbock Anxiety Copy Share Image
Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind. — John Lubbock Body Copy Share Image
There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand. — John Lubbock Believe Copy Share Image
Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose. — John Lubbock Blessing Copy Share Image
