God helps those who help themselves

Cultural  

1. God will not come to the aid of those who refuse to try; we must exert ourselves if we want to succeed.

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Example Sentences

Here was the man who believed that necessity never makes a good bargain, that God helps those who help themselves, sent off to perform a spectacular tin-cup routine.

From Time Magazine Archive

There's no place where the Bible says God helps those who help themselves.

From Time Magazine Archive

God helps those who help themselves, Mom told Maureen, and so for her own good, she would have to leave the nest and make her way in the world.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

"God helps those who help themselves," and he is ever ready to assist us in subduing what is wrong in our own spirits.

From The Nest in the Honeysuckles, and other Stories by American Sunday School Union

In preaching, as in all the works and ways of life, God helps those who help themselves and nothing is worthy but the noblest and the highest.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)