Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late." Sterling W Sill More Quotes by Sterling W Sill More 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. Sterling W Sill successful life-is motivational When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin. Sterling W Sill work tree years Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude Sterling W Sill failure loyalty attitude The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts. Sterling W Sill our-thoughts life-is way All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it. Sterling W Sill entertaining temptation It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself. Sterling W Sill paradox discipline want The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life. Sterling W Sill being-yourself life fall 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. Sterling W Sill punctuality quality people 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. Sterling W Sill satan force giving One of the greatest possible sins would be to return to God the life which he has given us with our abilities undiscovered and our talents undeveloped an unutilized. One of Jesus most bitter rebukes was given to him who buried his talents in the ground. Sterling W Sill return would-be jesus 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. Sterling W Sill joy life promise We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended. Sterling W Sill courses criticism perfection Man is a thinking being; what and how we think largely determines what we are and what we will become. Sterling W Sill determine men thinking Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul. We cannot do very much for anyone else until we have first done something for ourselves. That is, it is pretty difficult to give someone else an education unless we have some education ourselves. It is pretty hard to get someone else to think unless we ourselves are thinkers. Sterling W Sill soul giving thinking 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. Sterling W Sill generosity accomplishment errors When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you. Sterling W Sill understanding air giving 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. Sterling W Sill giving heaven ideas You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. Sterling W Sill reading writing book Discouragement is an attitude. Sterling W Sill discouragement attitude There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care. Sterling W Sill care serious believe
