"Patience can cook a stone." - Nigerian Proverb

“Patience can cook a stone.”

- Nigerianpatience

Meaning

With enough persistence, even the most impossible tasks can be accomplished.

Hausa blacksmiths and dyers spend hours over fires transforming raw materials. This proverb honors the slow, patient craft of transformation.

Origin

Nigerian

Language

Hausa

“Patience is the key which solves all problems.”

Somali

“However long the night, the dawn will break.”

Congolese

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