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Perseverance
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- 001 石の上にも三年 Even a stone grows warm if you sit on it for three years.
- 003 千里の道も一歩から A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
- 004 継続は力なり Continuity is strength.
- 005 塵も積もれば山となる Even dust, piling up, becomes a mountain.
- 006 雨垂れ石を穿つ Dripping water wears through stone.
- 087 三度目の正直 The third time is the charm.
- 122 百里を行く者は九十を半ばとす He who travels a hundred leagues counts ninety as halfway.
- 123 商いは牛の涎 Trade is like an ox's drool.
- 133 初志貫徹 Carry your first resolve through to the end.
- 134 臥薪嘗胆 Sleeping on firewood, tasting gall.
- 151 学問に王道なし There is no royal road to learning.
- 153 愚公、山を移す The old fool moves the mountain.
- 154 苦は楽の種 Hardship is the seed of joy.
- 157 日進月歩 Advance daily, progress monthly.
- 169 乗りかかった船 The boat already boarded.
- 187 捲土重来 Returning in a cloud of dust.
- 188 不撓不屈 Unbending, unbroken.
- 189 一念岩をも通す A resolute will pierces even rock.
- 192 止まない雨はない There is no rain that does not stop.
- 196 蝸牛そろそろ登れ富士の山 Little snail, climb, ever so slowly, Mount Fuji.
- 197 積小為大 Accumulating the small builds the great.
- 198 千日の稽古を鍛とし、万日の稽古を錬とす A thousand days of practice to forge; ten thousand to polish.
- 200 人の一生は重荷を負うて遠き道を行くが如し A man's life is a long road walked under a burden; there is no need to hurry.
- 210 旅に病んで夢は枯野をかけ廻る Sick on a journey — my dreams go wandering still over withered fields.
- 234 分け入っても分け入っても青い山 However deep I go, and deeper still — blue mountains.
- 238 有終の美 The beauty of a completed ending.
- 246 竜頭蛇尾 Dragon's head, snake's tail.
- 269 花は折りたし梢は高し One longs to pick the flower, but the branch is high.
- 295 雨ニモマケズ 風ニモマケズ Yielding neither to the rain, nor to the wind.
- 302 一日一歩、三日で三歩 One step a day: in three days, three steps.