God helps those who help themselves

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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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God helps those who help themselves

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

Always," he said, "God helps those who help themselves.

From The Affair of the Brains by Gilmore, Anthony

It is a prayer, as it were, to the Will to stand by me, and truly the will is Deus in nobis to those who believe that God helps those who help themselves.

From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Leland, Charles Godfrey