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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.