Sir John Lubbock
» Affection » “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.”
» Ambition » “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.”
» Beauty » “Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.”
» Character » “Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.”
» Education » “A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”
» Excellence » “When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.”
» Faith » “Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.”
» Happiness » “Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”
» Motivation » “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
» Rest » “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.”
» Restraint » “Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.”
» Teachers and Teaching » “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.”
» Time and Time Management » “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.”
» Worry » “We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.”
