Contribution Quote by John Lubbock Download Open image “To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.” — John Lubbock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contribution Happiness
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come… — Paul Acquasanta Copy Share Image
Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
It's great to be happy, but it's even better to bring happiness to others. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others. — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Sharing and accepting other people's happiness increases our own happiness. — Itsme867 Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand. — John Lubbock 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 surprise, if… — John Lubbock 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 life. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind. — Vernon Johns Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork. — William F. Nolan Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic crisis may… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet.… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
