practice makes perfect

English

Proverb

practice makes perfect

1. If one practices an activity enough, one will eventually master it.

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: repetitio est mater studiorum, fabricando fit faber
• 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
• 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)

See also

• perfect is the enemy of good

References

• Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, p. 281.