The sign that you have this virtue is patience, and impatience the sign that you have it not, and you will find that this is indeed so, when I speak to you further concerning this virtue.

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.

Patience is not learned in safety.

Patience Is Not the Ability to Wait:
Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.

<i>Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one?</i> Faith. Closely followed — in view of the overall shortage of time — by patience.

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Patience is the ability to wait and calmly preserve. We all grow impatient, but some people have more trouble waiting than others do. We tend to forget that all good things take time.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Patience, he told himself. Get yourself at least one virtue, anyway.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead.