28 Inspiring Quotes about
Tact is rubbing out another’s mistake instead of rubbing it in.
(Leo Buscaglia)
Speaking and behaving sensitively and cautiously to avoid gratuitously upsetting or offending others
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
(Isaac Newton)
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
(Sarah Orne Jewett)
You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.
(Mason Cooley)
Conquer, but never triumph.
(Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to Hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
(Winston Churchill)
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
(Abraham Lincoln)
Without tact you can learn nothing.
(Benjamin Disraeli)
Tact is the discrimination of differences.
(Theodor W. Adorno)
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
(William Gilmore Simms)
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 tempting moment.
(Benjamin Franklin)
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
(Barbara Kingsolver)
Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly.
(Debasish Mridha)
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.
(Henry Van Dyke)
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
(Samuel Butler)
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
(Orlando Aloysius Battista)
Tact… alludes to one’s ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.
(J. Oswald Sanders)
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
(Jean Cocteau)
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
(Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
(Francis Bacon)
Talent without tact is only half talent.
(Horace Greely)
Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.
(Raymond Mortimer)
Be sure, when you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.
(Frank Medlicott)
Some people mistake weakness for tact.
(Frank Medlicott)
People’s shortcomings should be treated with tact…
(Zicheng Hong)
Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil.
(Franklin P. Jones)
People with tact have less to retract.
(Arnold H. Glasow)
