No Matter How You Say It: Patience

Patience
Written By Austin Florence

Word Origin

The word patient comes from Latin patins, present participle of pat, which means “to endure”. Can you see how patience is related to endurance?

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Sign Language

Patient

Restless

Can you see how one sign has slow motions and implies quiet, while the other is faster and fidgetier?

Patience Idioms

  • Be like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis

  • Bide your time

  • Count to ten

  • Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

  • Don’t get ahead of yourself

  • Don’t judge a book by its cover

  • Don’t rush into things

  • Give it time

  • Have the patience of a saint

  • Hold on to your hat

  • Hold your horses

  • Keep your cool

  • Let sleeping dogs lie

  • Let the dust settle

  • Let things happen in their own time

  • Make haste slowly

  • Out of patience

  • Patient as Job

  • Sit tight

  • Take a deep breath

  • Take things one step at a time

  • Wait it out

In Other Words

  • Poise

  • Restraint

  • Self-Control

  • Calmness

  • Forbearance

  • Imperturbability

  • Stoicism

Patience Icons

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