(176 quotes found)
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”
Kahlil Gibran
“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
T.S. Eliot
“And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.”
Orson Scott Card
“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.”
Maya Angelou
“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
Victor Hugo
“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”
“A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.”
Marjorie Holmes
“Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.”
William Congreve
“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.”
Louis Pasteur
“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
