1. Patience

2. Patience is the ability to tolerate waiting, delay, or frustration without becoming agitated or upset. It’s the ability to be able to control your emotions or impulses and proceed calmly when faced with difficulties. It comes from the Latin word pati which means to suffer, to endure, to bear.

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4. Patience Doesn’t Come Easily In today’s world of ‘instant everything’, technological advancements and readily available credit have allowed us to obtain, experience, and consume practically anything we want – almost immediately.

5. Do we even need to be patient anymore? If we want to reach our goals, have successful relationships and achieve personal peace, then yes we do!

6. Patience is a Virtue Anything worthwhile and of importance takes time, dedication and effort to achieve.

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8. The Benefits of Developing Patience 1. Reduces stress levels and makes you a happier, healthier person. 2. When you learn and practice patience you don’t get as angry, stressed or overwhelmed.

9. Results in Better Decision- Making When you’re patient you take time to make a more informed decision. You take the time to assess the situation. You need to weigh the pros and cons so you will not rush into anything you will regret later.

10. Helps Develop Understanding, Empathy and Compassion Patient people take the time to process what they go through and are able to determine what it takes to overcome obstacles, and as a result are more understanding of others. Results in better relationships with friends and family.

11. Helps You To Understand and Appreciate Growth Anything worthwhile takes time and effort to achieve.

12. Tips on How to Develop Patience Plan on a day where you make patience your goal for the entire day. Make a conscience effort to take your time and think about everything you do.

13. Learn to do it on a daily basis. Developing patience is like physical exercise because it requires persistence and effort.

14. Slow Down Take several deep breaths before you act or move. For example if you are standing in a long line, make the decision to pause and not get worked up. Getting impatient won’t make things move any faster, so why get worked up for nothing?

15. Practice Thinking Before You Speak. Sometimes we just blurt out the first thing that pops into our head without considering the consequences. If we’re patient, pause and think about what we want to say, we can avoid hurting or offending others.

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17. Situations Which Require Patience Waiting your turn Acquiring possessions (saving for it) Not interrupting when someone else is talking Reaching Goals

18. Losing weight Becoming a professional career person Becoming a Top athlete Becoming a virtuoso in any musical field Getting over loss or tragedy

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20. Valuable Trait Patience is definitely a valuable virtue to develop. It is a very powerful and active form of self- discipline. Without it many of our actions would be a waste of time and energy.

21. Quotes on Patience A person who is a master of patience is a master of everything else. - George Savile Endurance is patience concentrated. Thomas Carlyle

22. Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. – Saadi He that can have patience can have what he will. Benjamin Franklin I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. - Lao Tzu

23. Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Everyday you need to work on it. - Eknath Easwaran Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. – James J. Corbett With love and patience, nothing is impossible. - Daisaku Ikeda