Don't rush, remember that Rome wasn't built in a day.
Rome wasn't built in a day
idiom B2
It takes a long time to create something complicated or impressive.
Origin
first recorded 12th c.Despite naming the city, the proverb is medieval French rather than ancient Roman. Its earliest known form — "Rome ne fu[t] pas faite toute en un jour" ("Rome wasn't made all in one day") — appears in a collection of French verse, Li Proverbe au Vilain, written around 1190.
It reached English centuries later through translators and proverb-collectors: Richard Taverner used a version in his 1539 rendering of Erasmus's Adagia, and John Heywood printed it in his 1546 proverb book as "Rome was not bylt on a daie."
Even Queen Elizabeth I drew on it — in Latin, "Roma uno die non est condita" — during a 1563 address at Cambridge, making the point that her reign would need time to prove itself.
Learning a new language is difficult, but keep practicing because Rome wasn't built in a day.
Although the startup struggled to gain traction initially, the founders remained patient, reminding themselves that Rome wasn't built in a day.
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