Of course we have to be patient to do any work. Likewise, we have to be patient by investing in bitcoin. Because Bitcoin is a digital coin, it is sometimes up and down. So you can invest long term in hopes of more profits. That's why we all have to be patient for more profit.
Most of the people lack's patience every time the market price is dropping and that is the reason they lose a huge amount of their investment due to the volatility of the market.
I don't think that attitude of having small patience is good, because it couldn't help the situation of the market right now. Most of the traders who haven't got good trades tend to loss patient all over. The market volatility seems to be unpredicatable right now and the price was ranging $5k to $6k because of such a bad moves of some day traders.