Definition of Patience

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Patience

The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.

The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.

Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.

Sufferance; permission.

A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.

Solitaire.

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Patience Quotations

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mohandas Gandhi

He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William Shakespeare

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
Jerry Garcia

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy

Patience Translations

patience in Afrikaans is geduld
patience in Dutch is geduld, lijdzaamheid
patience in French is patience
patience in German is Geduld
patience in Italian is indulgenza
patience in Latin is patientia
patience in Spanish is paciencia

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