范文:

　　Patience is either a good strategy of waiting and hoping, or a bad one of losing time andopportunities. Under different circumstances, more often than not we should wait and hope inorder to achieve, but sometimes it is better for us to act immediately before "golden"opportunities are lost forever. At best, patience is wisdom; and at worst, it is laziness in theabscence of courage.

　　Being a great capacity associated with wisdom, patience usually a good strategy. Since mostgreat achievements require time, patience may be regarded as a form of wisdom which isessential to successfully managing many things, big and small. Generally speaking, that wisdomis summed up in two words: wait and hope. Like farmers, for instance, we need to learn that wecannot sow and reap the same day, and that we should keep things going with hope,particularly when the going is hard and slow. Also in social life, without patience we at heartcannot work together efficiently with other people and society cannot function at all in civilorder. To paraphrase the wisdom of an old Chinese saying : "lack of patience in small matterscan create havoc in great ones".

　　Nevertheless, patience has its limits; being taken too far, it goes beyond laziness to becomecowardice. Hence, it is not always realistic to believe that all good things in the world come tous just because we wait long enough, refusing to know what on earth we are hoping for.Indeed, patience must be founded on realistic hope and it is not a virtue, provided that it isnot out of necessity. That is to say, patience may become a bad strategy if it is passive,which means not taking right action in the right place at the right moment. Ironically, patienceought to be understood as the quality of being active, or a form of action, which demandscourage and force so that time is not hopelessly lost. Far from being lazy and cowardly, weshould not hesitate imprudently and wait passively but should rather take quick action in theright direction now rather than later, considering that "time and tide" shall wait for no lazypeople.

　　Accordingly, the wise policy is to seek patience and action in equal amounts. Patience alonewithout wisdom does not lead to great achievements, whereas hasty actions are seldom wiseand often doomed. We may believe that laziness along with cowardice is a bad strategy, andwe should also know that the wisdom of patience is doing something else in the meantime andnot waiting foolishly like cowards.