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God helps those who help themselves

This proverb refers to the very old tendericy of man's dependence upon God for doing or accomplishing something. This tendency is originated from a misconception of God's help in human affairs, Those who have a wrong idea about God's help in any matter may believe that God will do things for them. And from that misconception, they may tend to sit idle and expect God to do particular things for them. But that is a wrong idea about God. It is true that everything depends on God's will and if a man makes sincere efforts to achieve something, he will not be able to achieve his objective if God does not want it. For example, if a man makes efforts to get a job of very high salary, he will not get such a job if God does not want it. But it does not also mean that a man should sit idle, and God will automatically send things according to his desire. That will not happen for common men. Of course, for extraordinary saints God sometimes gives things without any efforts on the part of those saints. But that is miraculous, and such things do not happen for ordinary people. For example, if an ordinary man wants that food should be cooked for him, and he does not do anything for cooking his food, his food will never be cooked, and he will go without food. But God may send food to a saint if he wills. So, for an ordinary man, or for human beings in general, God's law is that they should make effort, and depend on God for results and then God will help them. There is a Hadith, "Depend on God, but tie Your camel." This literally means that you should depend on God for act protection of your camel. It metaphorically means, if you war the testeve anything, do the thing yourself, and depend on God for the result. God helps those who make effort for achieving something.

Failure is the pillar of success

Human life is composed of success and failure. There is none in the world who has only success in life and no failure at all. In an attempt to accomplish a job, one may either succeed or fail. However, in car of failure one should not break down and stop efforts. He must go ot trying again and again until he gets success. If we study the lives of the great men we find this truth. We may look at the lives of commercially successful Bill Gates or politically successful Abraham Lincoln. They had to suffer the pangs of failure. But they learnt fron their failure and utilised the experience to make a way to success The way to success is never smooth. There are hindrances from place to place and from time to time. One must have the spirit to overcome those hindrances. If he stumbles once, he will stand up and mai deter vigorous efforts to jump over the hurdles. He must keep up the detkemination and courage to reach his desired goal. Many a failur makes a success. This realisation is much more important in care and ding. We often see that at the end of education many young boy and girls try for a job and if they do not get it they fall in great depression. They become hopeless about their life. They lose confidence in themselves and find darkness in front of them. In this circumstance they often take to drug abuse and other bad practice. But this is not the right way. They must keep on trying and one day the golden bird of success must be in their hands. Failure is not any hindrance but the real hindrance lies in mind. It is frustration which takes away all energy to work and go ahead. Failure is the pillar which one must use to reach the destination. One must have the courage to face failure and make a way to success.

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Great talkers are never great doers

In this statement 'talkers' refers to those persons who usually talk too much and 'doers' are those people who get actively involved in just thinking talk but stay away. semple in this world who only love to talk but stay away from being actively involved in work. They may be expert in philosophizing and giving theories but very bad in putting their theories into practice. In 8ther words, they are bad workers. On the other hand, there are also people who are known as great doers. Doers are not fond of talking They usually remain reticent about their activities and engage They selves whole-heartedly in work. The statement 'Great talkers are never great doers' distinguishes between these two categories of people. Talkers and doers are really temperamentally different. Talkers always enjoy talking but they never enjoy doing anything On the contrary, doers believe in the philosophy of work. They are fond of living an active life of hard work. It is often said that doing is more difficult than saying. So doers should be more appreciated than sayers. A person may be a great talker but he or she may not be a great doer. Talkers hardly become doers. It is always observed that good talkers are often bad doers.

Habit is second nature

"Habit means a pattern of behaviour that is regular and which has become almost automatic as a result of repetition" (Rechards et al). And nature means the qualities which make us what we are, governing our character and behaviour. The saying "Habit is second nature" is well known. It means that if we make a habit of doing something, it creates a particular pattern of our behaviour. This pattern of behaviour becomes almost automatic with us as a result of repetition of the same thing for a quite long time. Our pattern of behaviour normally proceeds from our inward nature, which is our inborn quality. What we do since our birth is due to our nature. Our nature is inherent in us. Our behaviour is dictated by our nature. It does not require any training; it is automatic. But if we do something. which is not consistent with our nature, we have to do it with conscious effort. But if the doing of that thing is repeated, it becomes a habit, almost automatic. Then doing this thing becomes almost automatic. It then occurs almost an automatically as something which proceeds from our nature. For example, if some particular point of our body itches, our fingers automatically reach the spot and scratches the spot of the skin where the itch occurs. It is instinctive or natural. We are born with that instinct for our self-preservation. On the other hand, we happen to fall out (quarrel) with somebody, and he suddenly aims a blow at our face in order to start a quarrel, we cannot instantly avert it with a counter blow if we have not had already practiced boxing. But if we had had enough practice in boxing, and it had become a habit with us, we could have averted the blow of our good habits only, so that we can be good in all our actions.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

'To give hostages to fortune' is to accept responsibilities that may limit one's freedom or to do something risky which may cause one trouble later. So the whole statement, "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune" goes against a married man. It says that a person who has wife and children has invited trouble for himself. The statement implies that wife and children are impediments to success. They are obstacles to any great enterprise in life. A married man may want to do anything great but he often fails to do it because of the problems created by his wife and children. As a married man has always to be obsessed with the responsibilities of his family, he can hardly do anything for himself or for anybody else outside his family. As he has to spend most of his time for the well- being of his family, he can hardly make time to do anything great. Thus he cannot engage himself in any great enterprise. This suggests that if anyone wants to attain anything great in life, they should attain it before their marriage. It is very likely that after their marriage all their roads to success will be blocked. If a student gets married in his student life, his studies will be seriously affected by the responsibilities of his married life. If a university teacher gets married early in his career, his higher studies may often be impossible. Wife and children are often great barriers to success. However, the statement is a female perspective, it can be said that she that hath husband and made from only a male perspective. From children that giver it can be said that shend if we consider the platement from a neutrales too we can use the word 'spouse' in of 'wife'.