practice makes perfect

English

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 (sŏdanggae samnyŏne pungwŏl ŭmnŭnda)
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)
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 (abhyāsaṃ kūsu vidya)
Urdu: گاتے گاتے کلاونت ہوجاتے ہیں‎ (Gaate gaate Kala want ho jate hein)

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

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