The Power Of Patience: Patience Is A Virtue - Written by Shahwana Khanam Patience is a virtue. As we have been told, do we really follow the principles?As we are driving through traffic, especially if we live in big cities, already we can see how patience runs out, instead of creating a flow, because of lack of patience we are creating a traffic jam which could have been easily avoided, if we were patient with the car ahead for just a minute.