God help those who help themselves.

There are students who don‟t study all through the year and then one day before the examination they go to the temple, make offerings and perform pooja and think that God will answer their prayers and give them a good result in the examination. Such students will find, much to their dismay, that God does not help shirkers. He only helps those who help themselves. There is the story of a scientist who worked for years in order to find out the cause of malaria. He had performed hundreds of experiments and almost given up hope. The he prayed and fell asleep.

 The next morning he woke up with a new idea in his hand. He tried it out and lo and behold!, he had found the cure for malaria. Thus we see that God helps only those who helps themselves. This is because God has given us all talents, attributes and the thinking power to achieve what we want. After being given all these, why should we again rely on God to achieve success? We should rely on the gifts that God has given us to make progress in life, rather than on God to do it for us.

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• Manners Make the Man - 2
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• Manners Make the Man - 1
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• One Good Turn Deserves Another
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• spare the rod and spoil the child
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• A Clumsy Workman Blames His Tools
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• Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity
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• Rome Was Not Built In A Day
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• A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed
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• A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
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• Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
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• A Bird In Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
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• Slow and Steady Wins the Race
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• Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth
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• Variety is The Spice of Life
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• An Idle Brain is the Devil’s Workshop
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• Work is Worship
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• Actions speak louder than words 
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• Examination a necessary evil
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• Health is Wealth
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• Experience is the best teacher.
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• All that glitters is not gold / A book cannot be judged by its cover
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• Birds of feather flock together.
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• Knowledge is power.
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• Travel broadens the mind.
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• Pride goes before a fall.
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• Strike when the iron is hot ( make hay while the sun shine )
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• A thing of beauty is a joy forever
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• A rolling stone gather no moss.
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• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
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• Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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• Handsome is as handsome does.
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• A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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• Impossible is a word in the dictionary of fools
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• God made the country and man made the town.
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• Charity begins at home.
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• Failures are stepping stones to success.
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• Empty vessels make the most sound.
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• Speech is the Gift of all , but thought of few.
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• Laughter is the Best medicine
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• As You Sow So Shall you Reap.
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• Nature, the best teacher
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• Pollution : The Bane of Machine Age
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• All that glitters is not gold
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• Dreamers create a world of their own
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• God help those who help themselves.
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• Practice Makes Man Perfect
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• Service to Man is Service to God
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• #2 - Handsome is as handsome does
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• Failures are stepping stones to success.
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• Charity begins at home.
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• To err is human, to forgive divine.
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• failures are stepping stones to success.
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• Slow and steady wins the race.
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• Prevention is better that cure.
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• One good turn deserves another. 
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• Procrastination is the thief of time.
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• Actions Speak Louder Than Words
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• Cut your coat according to your cloth.
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• Honesty is the best policy
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• The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Rules The World
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• Where There is a Will,there is a Way
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• No Pains, No Gains 
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• As you sow, so shall you reap.
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• Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
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