Greatness Takes Time

No great thing is created suddenly. – Epictetus

It can seem that way, but that’s not how it works.

Anything takes time, great or not.

To paraphrase Earl Nightingale, the time is going to pass anyway, why not do something towards greatness – it takes time after all.

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