patience

Example Sentences

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It requires restraint, patience and a willingness to confront ideas that don't affirm one’s own perspective.

From The Wall Street Journal

"When you start a war, there's a risk, and you never know what can happen," he said, warning that rising fuel costs back home could test patience.

From Barron's

Roche has chosen to provide an update as part of a wider desire within the club to ask for patience from their vast fanbase.

From BBC

“The kingdom and its partners possess significant capabilities, and the patience we have shown is not unlimited,” he said after a meeting of foreign ministers in Riyadh.

From Los Angeles Times

But investing and saving in a slow and steady manner requires human qualities that are always easy to sustain: patience, stamina, a work/life balance and resisting the call of wild consumerism.

From MarketWatch