I don't see why patience is listed among the virtues. I think it ought to be put on the index list. It ought to be considered a sin. The very word "patience" ought to be crossed out from any decent vocabulary. Let us analyze what patience is. How was the illusion formed that patience is a virtue? When we build something--a house or a play--we need great patience to adjust the parts, to perfect the whole. But it is not the patience itself which gives results. It is patience combined with creative effort. Let us call this combination creative patience. The effort without patience would be like meat without salt. But patience by itself is like salt without meat.

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.

Patience is the magic miller that grinds all the grist that comes to his mill and in grinding transforms the bad into the good. The supreme human need is patience, for patience alone keeps a man in control of himself and of his circumstances.

Patience is not only a virtue, but an acquired trait.

Patience, my lord. Why, 'tis the soul of peace.

Of all the virtues 'tis near'st kin to heaven.

It makes men look like gods; the best of men

That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer,

A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,

The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.

Patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

Patience is passion tamed.

Patience is a nobler motion than any deed.

Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.

Patience is self-mastery and the man who is master of himself carves out his career. The way may be steep and the outlook bleak but patience will ultimately lay the world at his feet.

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

In a great many cases ... patience is just disguised cowardice.

The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Patience is the ability to maintain self-control over the impulse that rises suddenly when something disagreeable happens. It is not just disregard of or indifference to life's daily irritations or upsetting incidents--it's a real control of self, of one's feelings and impulses.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.

An impatient man is hurried along by his wild and furious desires into an abyss of miseries, the more extensive his power is, the more fatal is his Impatience to him, he will wait for nothing, he will not give himself any time to take measures, he forces all things to satisfy his wishes, he breaks the boughs to gather the fruit before it is ripe, he breaks down the gates rather than wait till they are opened, he will needs reap when the wise husbandman is sowing.

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

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