Top 69 Quotes & Sayings by Sterling W Sill - Page 2

I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest number was number one. That was himself. That may sound like a little bit of selfishness, but if that is selfishness, at least it is a very intelligent selfishness. 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.

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.

Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.

A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent. Never before, it seemed, had the art of man been able to execute quite so deftly a reproduction of the art of nature.

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!

The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.

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

God... has a pencil with an eraser on it and he has promised us that he will use it if we will repent and change our ways…He has said that if we would forsake our evil and thoroughly make up our minds against it, then he would wash it out of his mind and just forget the whole thing. Of course, he expects that we will wash it out of our minds also.