Abide meaning

Verb: abide

Pronunciation: (u’bId)

Abide meaning:

• To remain in a fixed state or to wait for.
• Tolerate patiently or without any objections.

abided, abiding, abides

Quotations: Guru Nanak –  As fragrance abides in the flower, as reflection is within the mirror, so does your Lord abide within you, why search for him without?

Atticus – Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Bill Hicks – I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

John Ball – Our partners are negatively affected by the activities of those who compete unfairly by either selling illegal software and components or abusing agreements that other partners abide by. These dishonest re-sellers sell products at minimal costs, undercutting the business of legitimate re-sellers.

Mary Jo Schrade – Our honest partners have asked us to intervene to help protect those who abide by laws and rules governing software use and distribution. The lawsuits announced today are a necessary step to help ensure that those who knowingly and repeatedly violate known and widely accepted standards will not be given free rein to do so. We want to protect the business of honest re-sellers and try to ensure a level playing field for our partners.

Mencius – The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart. He does not think beforehand that his words shall be sincere, nor that his acts shall be resolute; he simply abides in the right.

Ramana Maharshi – If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one’s way through before regaining one’s original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the self and disappear entirely.

Sample sentences:

1. The newly appointed secretary had to abide a lot of unprofessional remarks.
2. A love that abides till the end of their lives is so precious.
3. Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.
4. Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
5. A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
6. Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
7. My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
8. Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
9. Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
10. Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.