ProverbPerseveranceAmerican origin1983

The ox is slow, but the earth is patient

Meaning: Steady, unhurried work in harmony with natural rhythms eventually yields abundance.

Origin: Presented as an ancient Buddhist or Chinese proverb, but it comes from the 1983 adventure film High Road to China, in which Tom Selleck's pilot, Patrick O'Malley, is told to remember that the ox is slow, but the earth is patient.

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