Tender Quotes

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

Pain, Person, Giving

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

Life, Strong, Young

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

Human, Rather, Act

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost

Great, Heart, Truly

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Love, Act, Habit

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman

Great, Learned, Against

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Voltaire

Made, Hell, Hearts

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher

Often, Full, Shadows

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
William James

Attitude, Sad, Serious

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

Honesty, Anyone, Wealth

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Mother, Long

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Often, Stifled

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Agatha Christie

Life, Through, Child

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust

Love, Separation, Says

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Horace

Others, Often, Minds

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Audre Lorde

Love, Women, Black

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana

Faith, Alone, Heart

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
David Herbert Lawrence

Laugh, Brutality, Mix

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Eyes, Gentleman, Present

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Another, Less, Name

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
Tom Hiddleston

Love, Nature, Truth

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.
David Attenborough

Car, Hate, Fact

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.
Susan Orlean

Kids, College, Changed

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
Alan Rickman

Life, Art, Robust

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
Harlan Coben

Great, End, Father

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
Ralph Fiennes

Good, Great, Patience

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Paula Cole

Music, Anger, Pain

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Isabelle Adjani

Passion, Violence, Pleasure

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.
Chris Van Allsburg

Best, Feeling, Sky

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
Ouida

Friends, Again, Goodbye

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