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English
Proverb
practice makes perfect
- If one practices an activity enough, one will eventually master it.
1986, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “I Believe”, in Lifes Rich Pageant:Golden words make practice, practice makes perfect, perfect is a fault, and fault lines change.
Translations
if one practices an activity enough, one will eventually master it
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 熟能生巧 (suk6 nang4 sang1 haau2)
- Mandarin: 熟能生巧 (zh) (shúnéngshēngqiǎo)
- Czech: opakování matka moudrosti
- Danish: øvelse gør mester
- Dutch: oefening baart kunst
- Esperanto: ekzercado lertigas
- Estonian: harjutamine teeb meistriks
- Finnish: harjoitus tekee mestarin
- French: usage rend maître, c’est en forgeant qu’on devient forgeron (fr)
- German: Übung macht den Meister (de)
- Hebrew: קשה באימונים קל בקרב (he)
- Hindi: गाते गाते कला वंत हो जाते हैं (gāte gāte kalā vant ho jāte ha͠i)
- Hungarian: gyakorlat teszi a mestert (hu)
- Icelandic: æfingin skapar meistarann (is)
- Inari Sami: hárjehusat rahkada measttir
- Italian: la pratica rende esperti; sbagliando s'impara, val più la pratica della grammatica
- Japanese: 習うより慣れろ (narau yori narero), 鏡は重磨によって輝く (kagami wa jūma ni yotte kagayaku)
- Korean: 서당개 삼 년에 풍월 읇는다 (seodanggae sam nyeone pung'wol eulleunda)
- Latin: repetītiō est māter studiōrum, fabricandō fit faber, exercitātiō artem parat
- Malay: alah bisa, tegal biasa
- Maltese: il-pratika tagħmlek perfett
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: øvelse gjør mester
- Nynorsk: øving gjer meister
- Persian: کار نیکو کردن از پر کردن است
- Polish: ćwiczenie czyni mistrza (pl), trening czyni mistrza
- Portuguese: a prática faz a perfeição
- Russian: повторе́ние мать уче́ния (povtorénije matʹ učénija), у кого́ сноро́вка, тот рабо́тает ло́вко (u kovó snoróvka, tot rabótajet lóvko), на́вык ма́стера ста́вит (návyk mástera stávit), де́ло де́лу у́чит (délo délu účit)
- Scottish Gaelic: is e an cleachdadh a nì teòma
- Serbo-Croatian: вежба чини мајстора, vežba čini majstora
- Spanish: la práctica hace al maestro, la práctica hace la perfección
- Swedish: övning ger färdighet (sv)
- Telugu: అభ్యాసం కూసు విద్య (abhyāsaṁ kūsu vidya)
- Urdu: گاتے گاتے کلاونت ہو جاتے ہیں (gāte gāte kalāvant ho jāte ha͠i)
- Vietnamese: có công mài sắt có ngày nên kim (vi)
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See also
References
- Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, p. 281.