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 - [Teachers and Teaching]

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 - [Time and Time Management]

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 - [Rest]

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
~ Sir John Lubbock - [Restraint]

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
~ Sir John Lubbock - [Motivation]

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
~ Sir John Lubbock - [Faith]

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
~ Sir John Lubbock - [Happiness]

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 - [Education]

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
~ Sir John Lubbock - [Excellence]

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.
~ Sir John Lubbock - [Affection]

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 - [Ambition]

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
~ Sir John Lubbock - [Beauty]

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
~ Sir John Lubbock - [Character]

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 - [Worry]