Patience pays big rewards.

Meaning: This means that if you are patient and wait for the right time, you will be rewarded with something great.

Choice of Words: Patience is the ability to wait for something without getting upset or angry. Pays means to give money or something else in exchange for something else. Big is the opposite of small, and means large in size or amount. Rewards are things that are given to someone as a way of showing appreciation or recognition for their efforts or achievements.

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If you wait patiently, you will get a big prize.

Meaning: This means that if you are patient and wait for something good to happen, you will eventually be rewarded for your patience. It's like saying, If you wait patiently for your turn, you will get a chance to play the game.

Choice of Words: If means that something is true only if something else is also true. Wait means to stay in one place and not move until something happens. Patiently means to wait calmly and without getting upset. You refers to the person who is waiting. Will means that something is going to happen in the future. Get means to receive or obtain something. A means one. Big means large or significant. Prize is something that you get for winning a competition or doing something well. When you put it all together, "If you wait patiently, you will get a big prize" means that if you wait calmly and don't give up, you will eventually be rewarded for your patience.

Being patient can lead to great things.

Meaning: This means that if you are patient and wait for something good to happen, you will eventually be rewarded for your patience. It's like saying, If you wait patiently for your turn, you will get a chance to play the game.

Choice of Words: Being means the state of existing or happening. Patient means able to wait calmly for something. Can means to be able to do something. Lead means to go in front of or show the way to others. To means towards or in the direction of something. Great means very good or impressive. Things are objects or events. When you put it all together, "Being patient can lead to great things" means that if you are able to wait calmly and not give up, you will eventually be rewarded for your patience.

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