patient adj. 1.Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness. 2.Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance. 3.Tolerant; understanding: an unfailingly patient leader and guide. 4.Persevering; constant: With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive. 5.Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive. 6.Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance

I can still hear my mother telling me "patience is a virtue". The only one in our home that actually exhibits patience daily is our lab, Amy.