Medlars are never good till they be rotten.

More proverbs about Perseverance

• Time and straw make medlars ripe. Patience and neglect accomplish what effort cannot; some things require only waiting.
• It is never too late to mend. Mistakes and poor situations remain fixable at any age or stage, no matter how long you'v…
• If every one would mend one, all would be mended. Individual responsibility for self-improvement creates collective progress without relyin…
• In the end things will mend. Patience through hardship yields eventual improvement; time itself becomes the healer of…
• Who would keep a cow when he may have a bottle of milk for a penny! Owning the burden of providing for something costs more than simply purchasing what you n…
• A wise man changes his mind; a fool never. Holding firm to wrong beliefs demonstrates stubbornness, while reconsidering based on new…