“Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”

“Fight for what you want to achieve with patience. And keep what you achieve also with patience.”

Titon Rahmawan

“Patience is not my dominant virtue.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

“Patience is the mother of all virtues and the godmother of madness”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book Marina

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

Dick King-Smith (1922–2011) English writer of children's books

“Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

“Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.”

Lauren Willig (1977) American author

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France

“The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue”

Edgar Rice Burroughs book Tarzan of the Apes

“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White