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Quotes About Virtue

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
~ George Washington
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
~ Tertullian
Patience is moral elasticity.
~ Austin O'Malley
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
I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.
~ Owen Feltham
Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
~ William Shenstone
Patience is the road to wisdom.
~ Kao Kalia Yang
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Patience is the Gnostic's scale and the humble the garden's door.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.
~ George Herbert
Get to part B, Daniel. Think fast. Patience is a virtue, and you know how Cam feels about those.
~ Lauren Kate
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.
~ Marcus Eremita
Don't underestimate kindess, gentleness and patience in a man.
~ Sumiko Tan
True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.
~ Allan Lokos
Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply.
~ Ann McLane Kuster
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
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
~ Arthur Helps
A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.
~ Horace Bushnell
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
Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
~ William Shakespeare
So much saintlike patience cannot be good for anyone.
~ Cassandra Clare