patience is a virtue

English

Proverb

patience is a virtue

1. It is better to be patient than impatient.

Synonyms

• good things come to those who wait

Translations

it is better to be patient than impatient

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: tålmodighed er en dyd
• Dutch: Geduld is een schone zaak
• Finnish: kärsivällisyys on hyve, maltti on valttia
• German: Geduld ist eine Tugend
• Hungarian: a türelem rózsát terem (hu)
• Italian: dare tempo al tempo, la pazienza è la virtù dei forti
• Macedonian: трпение - спасение (trpenie - spasenie, literally “Patience is salvation”)
• Maltese: il-paċenzja hija virtù
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tålmodighet er en dyd

• Portuguese: a paciência é uma virtude
• Spanish: la paciencia es una virtud, la paciencia es la madre de la ciencia (literally “patience is the mother of science”)
• Swedish: tålamod är en dygd
• Yoruba: sùúrù lérè

See also

• haste makes waste