Patient and saved.
Proverbs have no individual author. They passed orally through generations and were only written down from the nineteenth century onward, when collectors of folk literature began systematically recording what until then had been carried in memory. The sayings gathered here come from Croatian oral tradition and often exist in several variants depending on the region.
About this theme: Patience
Patience fares badly in an age measured in loading times. Yet nearly every tradition that wrote about it separates two things everyday speech runs together: waiting and enduring. The first is passive; the second is not. The Latin patientia comes from a verb meaning to suffer or bear — something actively carried, not an idle interval.
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- Drop by drop is the water pot filled.— Buddha
- Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.— Ovid
- He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk.— Friedrich Nietzsche
- Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone a palace.— Croatian Proverb
- I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.— Marie Curie