Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.
One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.
So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.
Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.
Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.
While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.