Veronica Roth Quotes

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change.

Time brings all things to pass.

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

Have patience, Radicals—Rome wasn't burnt in a day.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.

Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

Change always takes time.