કરતો કહાડતો મરી જાય, પણ કરતો રહી જાય.

karatō kahāḍatō marī jāya, paṇa karatō rahī jāya.

Literally: A man dies still doing, but the doing is left undone.
What it means: The work outlasts the worker — you will not finish it, so do not imagine you will.

કહેવત સમુદાય (Kahevat Samuday) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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