Samuel Gompers Quotes

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

The gods help them that help themselves.

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

I don't need government to be successful.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

God helps those who help themselves.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

I won't sit in the corner, crying, waiting for people to give me things: things do not just fall from the sky.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.