જણુનારીમાં જોર નહીં ત્યાં સુયાણી શું કરે?

jaṇunārīmāṁ jōra nahīṁ tyāṁ suyāṇī śuṁ karē?

Literally: If there is no strength in the mother, what can the midwife do?
What it means: External help is useless if the person involved lacks the necessary effort or ability.
The English proverb Shah set beside it: If you want to do a thing right, do it yourself.Master's eye doth much.Servants will not be diligent if the master is negligent.Every tub must stand on its own bottom.Commit not to another what you can better do yourself.

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ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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