No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
Samuel SmilesIt will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
Samuel SmilesMen who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
Samuel Smiles