God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
Trust in God and do something.
God helps them that helps themselves.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.
He will hew the line of right, let the chips fall where they may.
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
Oh Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to your Maker all the rest.
You, yourself, must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers.
There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away; there is a time to fight, and that time has come!
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.
Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest; do not worry.
'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
If people are suffering, then they must look within themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made [Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.