Top 77 Quotes About The Virtue Of Patience
#1. If you show patience
If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean, I'll drink all your water.
Rumi
#3. As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#4. Patience is my virtue, but only in Math, Daddy, - Ashley
Ryanne Salve
#5. Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.
Evan Harris
#6. I will bear any thing you can inflict upon me with Patience, even to the laying down of my Life, to shew my Obedience to you in other Cases; but I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my Virtue is at Stake!
Samuel Richardson
#7. Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about ...
Catherine Weaver
#9. Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
#10. Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
David Mallet
#11. It's true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.
Chelsea Handler
#12. Patience, he told himself. Get yourself at least one virtue, anyway.
Richard Matheson
#14. I take it," the lawyer remarked musingly, "patience isn't one of your virtues."
"I didn't know," she said, "that patience WAS a virtue.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#15. Patience is a virtue,
Virtue is a grace.
Grace is a little girl
Who would not wash her face.
Dick King-Smith
#16. Patience really is a virtue I don't hurriedly possess!
Sharon Fletcher
#17. Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.
Stephen Malkmus
#19. Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
Lauren Willig
#20. Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.
Chelsea Clinton
#22. When you've been tossed and driven like the mighty rushing wind; hold on to you sense of dignity, in the end you will be the one that comes out on the top.
Barbara Hart
#23. but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs
Henry Fielding
#25. I hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.
Elizabeth Peters
#26. Soldiers have nothing to look forward to, making patience an easy virtue, and sometimes it's not just a virtue but a contest of indifference.
Steven Erikson
#27. Patience is a virtue," she replies.
"Why couldn't 'hurry the fuck up' be a virtue?
Katelin LaMontagne
#28. There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
Henry Ward Beecher
#29. After my modest victory I played patience (the card game, not the virtue, never that) in the lounge, something I had not done since my ill-starred Tintagel honeymoon with Madame X.
David Mitchell
#30. Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.
Pope Benedict XVI
#31. If patience wasn't so easily tested, then it would hardly be a virtue. . . . "Yes,
Amor Towles
#33. In the modern world, human beings display little tolerance for waiting. We are addicted to fast food, instant messaging, and other conveniences of life. Patience is a lost virtue.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#34. Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.
Arian Foster
#35. The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.
Warren Eyster
#36. Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#37. Jake smiled, as if he enjoyed my temper tantrum. "Patience is a virtue."
"Yeah, well, so is virginity, but I don't have that anymore, either.
Alison Bliss
#38. More things to remember:
7) The value of time;
8) The pleasure of working;
9) The obligation of duty;
10) The power of kindness;
11) The wisdom of economy;
12) The virtue of patience.
Marshall Field
#39. Why is patience a virtue?" Spencer shouted over the din of activity as he slid out from beneath the rig with another technician. Their coveralls were stained with oil and grime. "Why can't 'hurry the fuck up' be a virtue?
Stephen Knight
#40. The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#43. The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
Deirdre O'Kane
#45. Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#46. Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.
George Washington
#48. Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.
J. Oswald Sanders
#49. Patience," he said, his eyes intent on his project.
"Patience is no' a virtue I have, Dash. I'm very sorry ta tell ye, but ye would have found out soon enough anyway.
Lydia Dare
#50. Patience is a virtue but I don't have the time.
David Byrne
#52. Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
George Washington
#53. Good things come ... " Her head fell back, giving him total access to her throat "to those who wait.' Patience is a virtue, Alistair.
Cristiane Serruya
#54. Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.
Fritz Kreisler
#55. We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.
N. T. Wright
#56. I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.
Jim Rohn
#57. Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
Vera Nazarian
#58. I may have mentioned patience wasn't one of my virtues. Actually, I didn't have many virtues but patience definitely wasn't one of them.
Kristen Ashley
#59. As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.
James Lee Burke
#60. Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. 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.
Catherine Of Siena
#62. He laughed, a low, sexy growl, as she moaned in obvious frustration. "Patience is a virtue," he said.
"Torture is a federal offense," she replied.
Carla Cassidy
#65. Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Elon Musk
#66. Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed - in view of the overall shortage of time - by patience.
Christopher Hitchens
#67. The secret code of success is patience,
a virtue that can not be replaced.
It takes time to build great dreams.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#68. Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.
Thomas S. Monson
#69. Patience is a virtue, just like parenting. We aren't born as parents, we learn how to be patent through our kids. From those lessons comes the wisdom to be patient!
Martin R. Lemieux
#70. Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.
Max Lucado
#71. Get to part B, Daniel. Think fast. Patience is a virtue, and you know how Cam feels about those.
Lauren Kate
#72. Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue
Charles Saatchi
#73. Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation;
When patience was a virtue ... but I wasn't used to waitin.
Black Thought
#74. Patience, Abigail. Patience."
Abigail snorted. "Patience, right. I am known for having a great handle on the Fruits of the Spirit."
"Interesting. I don't recall manipulation being a Biblical virtue.
Rachel Van Dyken
#75. Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues.
Doreen Virtue
#77. Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
Seneca The Younger
