Patience is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances.

Patience may also refer to:

Places

  • Patience Island, in Rhode Island, United States
  • Fort Patience, Dutch-built fort in Ghana
  • Gulf of Patience, in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

People

  • Patience (given name), a female given name; includes a list of people with the name
  • John Patience (born 1949), British author and illustrator
  • Judy Patience (born 1939), New Zealand artist specialising in weaving

Art, entertainment, and media

  • Solitaire, a family of single-player card games also known as patience
  • Patience, also called Klondike (US) or Canfield (UK), the most popular of the patience games
  • Patience sorting, a sorting algorithm based on the card game
  • "Patience" (poem), a late 14th-century alliterative poem
  • Patience (graphic novel), a 2016 science fiction love story by Daniel Clowes
  • Patience (play), a 1998 play by Jason Sherman
  • Patience (TV series), a 2025 British–Belgian police procedural series
  • "Patience" (The X-Files), an episode of the eighth season of the television series The X-Files
  • Patience Phillips, the character who becomes Catwoman in the 2004 film Catwoman
  • Patience and Fortitude, nicknames of the lion sculptures flanking the entrance to the Schwarzman branch of the New York Public Library

Music

  • Patience (opera), or Bunthorne's Bride, a Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera
  • Patience (Peter Hammill album), released in 1983
  • Patience (Over the Rhine album), released in 1992
  • Patience (George Michael album), released in 2004
  • Patience (The Dead C album), released in 2010
  • Patience (Mannequin Pussy album), released in 2019
  • Frank Iero and the Patience, a band

Songs

  • "Patience" (Guns N' Roses song), 1988
  • "Patience" (Take That song), 2006
  • "Patience" (Dreamgirls song), from the 2006 film Dreamgirls
  • "Patience" (Tame Impala song), 2019
  • "Patience" (KSI song), 2021
  • "Patience" (Agnez Mo song), 2022
  • "Patience" (Jaydes song), 2022
  • "Patience", a 2005 song by Dala, from their album This Moment Is a Flash
  • "Patience", a 2010 song by Nas and Damian Marley, from their album Distant Relatives
  • "Patience", a 2016 song by the Lumineers, from their album Cleopatra
  • "Patience", a 2016 song by Shawn Mendes, from his album Illuminate
  • "Patience", a song by The Featherz, from their 2017 album Five Year Itch

Other uses

  • Kshanti, Buddhist concept of patience as a practice of perfection

See also

  • Patient (disambiguation)