Quotes from Sterling W Sill

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them

It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.

Next to the human spirit the human body is the most marvelous of God's creations.

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.

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.

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.

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

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.

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.

Successful people follow successful patterns.

Life begins when we begin and each day we ought to be born again.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

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.

We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes.