Epictetus Quotes

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

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.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

I think the best things are the ones that happen organically and take a while because nothing really happens overnight if you think about it.

Nothing happens overnight in this game.

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

It takes time and experience to make a person.

The Great Vessel takes long to complete.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

Time will perfect matter.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.