Quotes About The Virtue Of Patience

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato The Elder

#6. Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Vera Nazarian

#7. 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

#8. We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

N. T. Wright

#9. Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.

Fritz Kreisler

#10. 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

#11. Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

George Washington

#12. Patience is not my dominant virtue.
D'Artagnan

Alexandre Dumas

#13. Patience is a virtue but I don't have the time.

David Byrne

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Philip Massinger

#17. 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

#18. Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. Patience is the courage of virtue.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

#20. 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

#21. Virtue of prayer, virtue of patience.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Patience is not a virtue!

Alan Chadwick

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation;
When patience was a virtue ... but I wasn't used to waitin.

Black Thought

#28. Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

Charles Saatchi

#29. Get to part B, Daniel. Think fast. Patience is a virtue, and you know how Cam feels about those.

Lauren Kate

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. The secret code of success is patience,
a virtue that can not be replaced.
It takes time to build great dreams.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#34. 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

#35. Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Elon Musk

#36. Patience was a virtue I found pointless

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#37. There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#41. Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

#42. Patience is a conquering virtue.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#43. 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

#44. Patience really is a virtue I don't hurriedly possess!

Sharon Fletcher

#45. Patience is a virtue,
Virtue is a grace.
Grace is a little girl
Who would not wash her face.

Dick King-Smith

#46. 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

#47. Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

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

Richard Matheson

#49. 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

#50. Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

David Mallet

#51. Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Lauren Willig

#52. Patience was a virtue he possessed in abundance.

Sylvain Reynard

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

Evan Harris

#56. Patience is my virtue, but only in Math, Daddy, - Ashley

Ryanne Salve

#57. 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

#58. What is a woman's greatest virtue?
Patience.

India Edghill

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.

Arian Foster

#65. 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

#66. Patience is a virtue and it's also a commitment

Marcelle Hinkson

#67. If patience wasn't so easily tested, then it would hardly be a virtue. . . . "Yes,

Amor Towles

#68. 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

#69. The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#70. Patience is a virtue," she replies.
"Why couldn't 'hurry the fuck up' be a virtue?

Katelin LaMontagne

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply,

Ann McLane Kuster

#74. but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs

Henry Fielding

#75. 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

#76. Patience is the virtue that forges great men.

Chris Vincent

#77. Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

Chelsea Clinton