Tact Quotes

115 quotes by 97 authors

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion. — Gregory Peck
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. — Dr. Seuss
Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead. — Benjamin Disraeli
Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in. — John Kessel
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. — Benjamin Disraeli
In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as… — Charles R. Swindoll
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out… — Benjamin Disraeli
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought. — B. H. Liddell Hart
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. — Ambrose Bierce
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. — Sarah Orne Jewett
War is like government, a matter of tact. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the… — Benjamin Franklin
If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny. — Dane Cook
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order,… — Charles Horton Cooley
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? — Albert Einstein
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. — Abraham Lincoln

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