“Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.”

“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

Satchel Paige (1906–1982) American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues

“When the gardeners are praying for rain, the picnickers are praying for sunshine. So what is the poor Lord to do?”

William Feather (1889–1981) Publisher, Author

“Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?”

Jessica Dubroff (1988–1996) American child pilot trainee

“Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.”

Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor

“However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.”

Ernest Bramah book Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

“36. Do you wish to pray? Renounce all things. You then will become heir to all.”

Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) Christian monk

“I looked into her eyes. "Mom, who do you pray to?"

I just pray, Daniel. That's all.”

James Patterson book The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

“No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

“You have got through the difficult business, now you dig, dig, dig, until you are safe.”

Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853–1947) British Army general