Do you believe Patience is a virtue???

@ronita34 (3922)
Canada
January 18, 2007 2:56am CST
Are you a patient person?? Do you think that it is good to be patient as opposed to impatient?
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@steerforth (1797)
• Italy
18 Jan 07
Yes I think that patient is a virtue because generally the people patience can think better.
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@ashraine (178)
• Philippines
19 Jan 07
well said.. a patient person can be able to focus on its ideas only if he's patient enough and that would result in a more effective problem solution..
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
You are absolutely right that a patient person can in fact think more clearly in certain situations!
@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
18 Jan 07
Patience is learned. We can teach outselves. Sometimes it will save you some grief if you learn to wait something out. Your relationships can go better when you have patience and your partner can add to the positive experience if they have patience also. Again it can be learned and surprisingly it has its rewards!
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@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
20 Jan 07
Thanks for the best response. Glad to have been able to guide you to balance!!
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
18 Jan 07
Patience is Virtue. Being petient for me has always paid off. However you are right about patience needing to be learned and for some i guess it is harder to learn. This is why i personally feel fortunate that i am patient person! Patience is a Virtue and as long as you be patient or at least attempt too learn patience i promise it will always pay off in the end!
@shogunly (1397)
• Libya
19 Jan 07
I once watched a play (theatre) , in the last scene a voice tells the hero "patience is life " and i guess it was the moral of the whole thing . I couldn't understand how a human concept (enduring hardship?) could be applied to all of creation (of which humans are but a small part) . More recently ,after having some hardships of my own and putting my own patience to the test , I remembered that play and those words and felt like I could see meaning in them . It's difficult for me to explain it ,I will come back later and try .
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
Ok you are always welcome to come back anytime you feel you know what you have to say!!! That would have been a good play to see and i think that sometimes we all need to be taught a litytle extra patience!!!
@mariner68 (1276)
• India
20 Jan 07
is is good to be patient and it has its own advantages. i am a patient person and it is definitely a virtue, which only some people have, i guess.
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
You are right not all of us are blessed with patiemce. Which is why i believe that patience is in fact a virtue!!!
@hopeful28 (1439)
• Singapore
31 Jan 07
I try to be. I believe it is better to control my temper so that I will not react negatively or say something I will regret in the heat of the moment. Having experienced screaming at people and then crying for the next 3 days because I felt so bad is a good lesson for me to not lose my patience.
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
I agree and i used to be the same way in the past and i would always cry afterwards because i felt so badly about it!
@scrawl (374)
• India
19 Jan 07
Ya.... but they also say the vulture is a patient bird !
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
You are right that a vulture would probably deem the most patient above all else!!1
• United States
31 Jan 07
I sadly am not patient. And I agree with you, it is better to be patient than impatient. It is better for your health and the people around you if you are patient.
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
31 Jan 07
Yes I am a patient Person and it always pays to be Patient well I find it does anyway lol I know a lot of People that are not and get totally stressed out which is not good at all
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
1 Feb 07
You are absolutely right that it is never good for anyone to always be stressed out and it defineately is not healthy either! I am glad that you know being impatient is never the way to be!
• United States
18 Jan 07
I wish that I was a patience person. Sorry to say I'm not. I just can't stand waiting for anything. My husband tells me to settle down and it will happen sooner or later. I crab about it all the time. LOL
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
18 Jan 07
I know the feeling i am a very patient person about 95 % of the time. I do have my days though and let's just say that i am sure glad that it only happens 5% of the time ... LOL!!
@snowflake5 (1579)
• United States
31 Jan 07
I firmly believe that patience is a virtue, and I am a patient person. I believe in the old adage of "More haste less speed". People make mistakes when they rush. and they fail to think through the consequences. Also nothing worthwhile happens immediately. You have to patiently see it through.
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
Thank you for such a wonderful response as usual!!! I agree with you one hundred percent and i could have never defined it better myself!
@stonehr (818)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
18 Jan 07
Patience is for me one of the best gifts in my life. I can be so much patience while others wonder how I can be so much patience. I know what are the best things in life so I always try to be with these. Anyway I don't want to lose nothing from my life so to do that I'm patience person. Also I want for my life to be plentiful, without patience that's impossible.
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
18 Jan 07
I am glad that you agree. Patience is sometimes hard for one to accomplish but once you conqueor patience then you have conqueored all!
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@9676276 (264)
• Pakistan
18 Jan 07
yea i,d go wid u.Patience is a Virtue.but i dun use pateince at times...
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
LOL...I guess there comes a time in all of our lives where we can not find patience with certain things. At teh same time you are right that patience is in fact a virtue!!!
@samraf (725)
• India
31 Jan 07
yes i belive that patiens is the virtue but i am really never have patience for anything.. and i thing this could be the negative part of me regards,
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
It could vry well be but patience can be learned if you really want to learn how to be more patient!
31 Jan 07
I think it is a great quality to be patient. I do try to be patient, but it is often difficult for me.
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
It can be difficult to be patient for anyone all the time! It can be learned though so not to worry!
@sarah22 (3979)
• United States
28 Mar 07
i think so.
• United States
28 Mar 07
Patience is definitely a virtue in my book. Showing patience is not often easy for many, yet it can make the difference to someone else's life if you can be patient. I like to think I'm a patient person... now hurry up and answer me back! LOL Just kidding!
@kareng (55003)
• United States
28 Mar 07
I think most patient people are wise. Of course there are times when you need to speak up and not let others take advantage of you but so much can be learned by listening.
@mzbubblie (3839)
• United States
31 Jan 07
I believe I am patient to a degree, If I know someone is supose to be on time, or if I have to wait long amounts of time, I get impatient. If someone is trying to explain something to me, but beats around the bush, I start to get impatient.. I am pretty open minded, however, when things don't go as planned, I tend to be more impatient...and fussy...
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
I also get impatient when it comes to having to wait too long. I also agree that if as long as everything goes smoothly i am always patient. All of us however can only be patient to a point!
@XxAngelxX (2830)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
I try to have patience but it doesn't always seem to work out that way, lol. If I am doing a job, then I am always very impatient to get it done.
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
LOL...I understand that i too get impatient with certain things!
@rlshaw (871)
• United States
31 Jan 07
I'm not a very patient person.. Sometimes I wish I was because I get so frustrated waiting for things ...exspecially slow people... I have been working on this though..lol
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
31 Jan 07
LOL...I will admit that there are certain things that frustrate me and make me impatient also. I think that this only human nature though!