patience

One flower does not make a spring.

Count the chicks only at the end of autumn — don't celebrate a success too soon.

If you are patient, you can turn sour unripe grapes into sweet halva.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Knowledge becomes truly well-grounded through patience — for how can a stone ever become a ruby without enduring the right pressure?

Do not let fasting darken your temper — patience and forbearance surpass all else.

One cannot out-argue fate — they will sew shut your mouths, even if you have a hundred of them.

Good news has come: the days of sorrow will not last — as that did not remain, neither will this.

If the wheel of fortune ran against us for a few days, do not grieve — the state of the age never stays the same.

The corner of patience was Luqman's chosen refuge — whoever lacks patience lacks wisdom.

It is hard, after losing rank, to bear command from others — used to comfort, now to bear the world's harshness.

Patience is wisdom's brother; wisdom sits upon the soul like a crown.

When one's years reach sixty, one must take patience as one's guide.

When a man is patient and forbearing, no trickery can work against him.

Neither this endures in the world, nor that — good and bad both surely come to an end.

The Shahnameh is pleasant only at its end — judge a matter by how it concludes.

Every affair waits upon its time — when the moment came, a single dream freed the moon of Canaan from his chains.

Hunger itself is the king of all remedies — do not see it in the soul as something so lowly.

Greed so humbled him that five hundred proofs were still not enough to save him from his own weakness.

The morsel that props up this body is like armor — bread wards off the blade of hunger.