John Lubbock
8 quotes.
Quotes by John Lubbock
- Be wary and keep cool. A cool head is as necessary as a warm heart. In any negotiations, steadiness and coolness are invaluable; while they will often carry you in safety through times of danger and difficulty.
- Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
- The world would be both better and brighter if we would dwell on the duty of happiness, as well as on the happiness of duty.
- If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
- Never waste anything, but, above all, never waste time.
- Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means waste of time.
- The best help is not to bear the troubles of others for them, but to inspire them with courage and energy to bear their burdens for themselves and meet the difficulties of life bravely.
- Whether a life is noble or ignoble depends not on the calling which is adopted, but on the spirit in which it is followed.