Top 1200 Patience Is A Virtue Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

The era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed. Many years, and it's failed. And, frankly, that patience is over.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.

Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

How can you lay claim to faith, when you have no patience at all. Surely you must have heard the saying of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him "patience is to faith, as the head is to the body."

O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.

Girls, they just have something that guys don't have. They've got this patience and this motherly thing, we just don't have that same patience as men.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one's own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism, the meekness of the Lamb which is led.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.

Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and preserved. Virtue has all things in herself; he who has virtue has all things that are good attending him. [Lat., Virtus praemium est optimum. Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto. Libertas, salus, vita, res, parentes, Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur; Virtus omnia in se habet; omnia assunt bona, quem penes est vertus.]

If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shall possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.