Sterling W. Sill Quotes
Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.
Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.
All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.
It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.
Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.
Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.
Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.
We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.
If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them
There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care.
One who works twice as hard will have four times as much accomplishment. If he works 3 times as hard he will have 9 times as much accomplishment and 9 times more fun in the process.
Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.
It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.
The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.
Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.
If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.
How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!
Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.
Man is a thinking being; what and how we think largely determines what we are and what we will become.
Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.
We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends.
People would rather be praised than criticized but the later may help us make more progress.
We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.
There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.
The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.
When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.
God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and commanded us to be men.
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude.
That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon it, as indeed it does.
There is a blueprint for every accomplishment-all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.
Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.
Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.
I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."
One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?