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.

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

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

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

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

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.

It takes time and experience to make a person.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

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

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

Perfection is the child of time.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

If I can play 15 when I am 25, I can play 35 when I'm 55.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

You are going to grow up whether you want to or not. It requires no effort.

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.

Everyone changes throughout the years.