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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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, my dear fellow.

From The Wife, and other stories by Garnett, Constance

Is there not more than a note of skepticism in that much-approved saying: "God helps those who help themselves?"

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood