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Quotes About Virtue

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~ John Ruskin
Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.
~ Chelsea Clinton
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.
~ Arian Foster
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.
~ Swami Vivekananda
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
The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Patience is God's nature.
~ Tertullian
Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
~ Aristotle
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
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
~ Seneca the Younger
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
~ Horace Bushnell
The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.
~ Dalai Lama
This flour of wifly patience.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer