Patience is often thought of as a quiet, passive, trait, but as President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, said, "Patience is not a passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something . . even  when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well."

"Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being 'willing to submit to all things which the Lord seethe fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father' [Mosiah 3:19]. Ultimately, patience means being 'firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord' [1 Nephi 2:10] every hour of every day, even when it is hard to do so."

Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Continue in Patience," Ensign, May 2010, 57, 59.