APAD: Rome wasn't built in a day

It emphasizes that you cannot expect to accomplish great things in a short period of time.

 

More per dear Wikipedia:

"Rome wasn't built in a day" is an adage attesting to the need for time to create great things. It is the usual English translation of a medieval French phrase, Rome ne fu[t] pas faite toute en un jour, from the collection Li Proverbe au Vilain, published around 1190. The modern French form is «Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour». 

 

The expression, (as "Rome was not built in one day") is given in English in John Heywood's A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue (c. 1538), while Queen Elizabeth I referred to the idea in Latin in an address at Cambridge in 1563. The present perfect and oratio recta version of the Latin saying—the version one would use for a stand-alone quotation—would be Roma uno die non est condita.

Here comes the important part:  next time when others rush you, you know what to say.  

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• One step at a time, then the other… -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 07:39:54

• Eventually we will build Rome. Yes we can! ：） -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 07:41:08

• Yes we can, with positive & inspirational leadership! :-) -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 11:37:02

• Rome 2.0 pre-releases in a month; all hands on deck! :-) -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 09:06:03

• I'm totally out to lunch wrt games ;-) is it this 1 below? -最西边的岛上- ♀ (194 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 11:39:37

• I'm no hipper and was trying to show how bosses hustle :-) -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 13:55:21

• Synonym to 1k miles journey starts from a single step -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 09:39:31

• what do two Italian ants call themselves? We r romance -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 09:41:37

• hahahaha, this is a funny one :-))) -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 11:41:02

• right, and Roman was built starting with a single stone ;-) -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 12:02:40

• It takes >1 chilly day 4 the river 2 freeze 3feet deep. -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 13:46:10

• and might even take longer to melt ;-) -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/04/2024 postreply 13:54:01