Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
“For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.”
“I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.”