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- Patience and delayed outcomes
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- PersianEffort and providenceSense: Verified
جوینده یابنده است
jūyande yābande ast
Those who keep seeking are the ones who find.
Encourages active and persistent seeking rather than passive waiting; it does not guarantee success.
- EnglishPatience and delayed outcomesSense: Verified
Good things come to those who wait.
Good things come to those who wait.
Used to encourage someone to keep waiting rather than force an outcome, on the understanding that the delay itself is not a loss.
- EnglishPatience and delayed outcomesSense: Verified
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time and tide wait for nobody.
Warns that time and opportunity continue moving, so delay can forfeit the chance to act.
- EnglishPatience and delayed outcomesSense: Verified
A watched pot never boils.
A watched pot never boils.
Says that concentrating on a wait makes it feel longer.
- ArabicPatience and delayed outcomesSense: Verified
المستعجل والبطي عند المعدية يلتقي
al-mustaʿjil wa-l-baṭīʾ ʿind al-maʿaddiyya yaltaqī
The one who hurries and the slow one meet at the ferry.
Hurrying gains nothing when the real bottleneck is outside the traveller’s control.
- EnglishPatience and delayed outcomesSense: Verified
He that can stay obtains.
The person who can wait obtains the goal.
Presents patience as a capacity that helps a person eventually obtain what they seek.
- PersianEffort and providenceSense: Verified
از تو حرکت، از خدا برکت
az to harekat, az khodā barekat
Do your part, and trust God for the blessing.
Encourages practical action while attributing blessing or a favorable outcome to God; it does not guarantee success.