Tender Quotes

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

Related topics: Inspirational Values Compassion Value

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

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

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of
sympathy have been touched.
- Paul Harris

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

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

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

People will always need love, romance,
a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.
- Susannah McCorkle

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit,
are to me far above all the joys that I could ever
hope for in this vale of tears.
- Charles Simeon

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
- Frank Perdue

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

When I get through tearing a lobster apart,
or one of those tender West Coast octopuses,
I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.
- Joseph Mitchell

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen,
I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
- Ida Lupino

I think women can be as cruel as men,
and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
- Aaron Eckhart

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

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

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended
up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.
- Tony Curtis

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender,
for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
- Mo Udall

She gave up beauty in her tender youth,
gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways;
she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity,
and chose the bitter truth.
- Christina Rossetti

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

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore
I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church
and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
- Anne Hutchinson

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
- Bayard Taylor

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

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.
- Peter Thomson

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

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

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

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

I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.
- Rod Taylor

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional,
they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic,
they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
- William Dunbar

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

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender,
sensitive, beautiful human being.
A lovely person.
Very gentle.
She would never stand up for her rights.
- Kim Novak

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

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
- John Sheffield

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

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

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

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.
- Julia Margaret Cameron

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
- Ruth Graham

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express,
we feel a sense of shame.
- Ugo Betti

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

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying,
but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
- Mary MacLane

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,
But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.
- Frederick Tennyson

A child is owed the greatest respect;
if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind,
don't ignore your son's tender years.
- Juvenal

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew,
Whose short refresh upon tender green,
Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone,
as it had never been.
- Samuel Daniel

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces,
sees the game taking the course intended.
Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his;
and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
- Kate Chopin

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

It's not good enough to give it tender,
loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods,
to buy it expensive educations.
Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future.
And we're not sure that it does.
- George Wald

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender.
The black-and-white films.
With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because
I was at the shows for those,
so they bring back memories.
- Lisa Marie Presley

Our works and our play.
All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love.
What could be better that? To feel in one's work the
tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
- Mary Richards

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles,
and to really know the specifics.
To understand the context, and also,
to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care,
not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.
- Jeffrey Sachs

We have a society in which one of the greatest things
you can do is a platform to see victim status,
and one of the qualifications for that is that you
have these exquisitely tender feelings about things
and sensibilities which are easily offended.
- Brit Hume

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film,
but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia.
My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times
all of my Australian films combined.
- Bruce Beresford

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

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't
come as a result of getting something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
- Frederick Koenig

We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Terry Pratchett

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Conversations with God are very different
from the usual nature of prayer.
Prayers are commonly only in one direction -
the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.
Prayers also tend to focus on asking
for specific things or outcomes one wants,
rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau

The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous

In many ways, it is easier to be a good giver than a good receiver.
The giver chooses the gift and the timing.
More important, societal and religious traditions
tend to elevate the status of giver and lower the status of receiver.
When the Bible (Acts 20:32-35) speaks of it being
more blessed to give than to receive,
I believe that a better translation might be
"take" rather than "receive," as the context
of that passage is "coveting."
Certainly there is nothing blessed about coveting,
stealing, begging, or demanding,
however the skill of graciously receiving a freely offered gift
is another matter entirely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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