Patience | Core Virtues

Patience

Maintain composure in the face of difficulties.

Patience is the moral virtue that moderates the passion and expression of anger in accordance with right reason. Since anger itself is neither morally good nor morally evil, patience is not merely a negative habit. Through the habit of patience, reason both restrains anger that is unjust in its motives or intended effects and utilizes just anger when it can attain virtuous ends. Since anger and frustration can quickly overcome good judgment, the virtue of patience is a great aid to the preservation of prudence.

For Grades K-2:

The virtue of patience gives us the strength to govern or control our anger and frustration so that we respond to others with fairness and kindness.

For Grades 3-6:

The virtue of patience gives us the ability to moderate our anger according to what is right and reasonable. Patience does not aim to eliminate anger, but to ensure that it is expressed justly and for good reasons, while restraining the impulses of anger that are unfair or simply harmful.

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Poems about Patience

I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end...

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.

This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.

They all were looking for a king...

The Road goes ever on and on...

I took the one less traveled by