Epictetus Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

Time brings all things to pass.

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.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Everyone changes throughout the years.

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

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

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.

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.

It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

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

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

Some age, others mature.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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.

The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

Everyone changes all the time.

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