Chinua Achebe Quotes

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.

I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

Help yourself, then God will also help you!

Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

I'm not one of those who say this is the way. I'm not that opinionated. I can only say this is my way. Even the $1,000 scholarship that my son could have gotten from the state of Illinois to go to college, we didn't want. I'd rather get out and work and have my children know that their money comes from their parents and we have to work for it.

I never expected anything to be given to me.

If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.

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.

I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

I now know that me giving my all and giving my best will result in my needs being taken care of and provided for.

You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.

I believe 0% is luck. I think you create your own luck, so I don't believe in luck.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

The gods love those of ordered soul.

You have to rely on yourself and your associates - gifts don't come from above; you're going to win them, or you won't have them.

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.