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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

~ Warren W. Wiersbe

Warren W. Wiersbe Diplomacy Hypocrisy Love Tact Truth Truth Telling

Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly.

~ Debasish Mridha

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In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive You

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

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I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

~ Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee Care Friends Relationships Tact

Only a writer with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

~ Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer Leadership Motivation Tact Word Choice

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

~ Chelsea Handler

Chelsea Handler Filters Friendship Honesty Humor Tact

A positive is just two negatives going in two different directions. So, if something doesn't work, change tact, and come at it from a different direction. You never know, it may just work.That's being positive for ya!

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Anthony T. Hincks Change Correct Direction Doesn T Work Failure Negative Philosophy Positive Right Sign Succeed Tact Wrong

I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

~ Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan Archives Emotion Georgian History Letters Tact Victorian

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

~ Socrates

Socrates Absolute Truth Character Courage Political Correctness Tact

Tact is the knack of keeping quiet at the right time, of being so agreeable yourself that no one can be disagreeable to you, of making inferiority feel like equality. A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

~ George Horace Lorimer

George Horace Lorimer Business Tact

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin Hypocrisy Kindness Offensive Politeness Tact

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...

~ Socrates

Socrates Kindness Love Tact

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.

~ Angelica Hopes

Angelica Hopes Arrogance Demand Disrespect Kindness Price Prize Respect Tact Values

Being popular doesn’t always win spiritual change. Christ didn’t pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point—to make people realize how much better they could become.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Acting With Love Christianity Confidence Lessons Manners Parables Passive Pastors Tact

...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want any of you to expect anything different.

~ Socrates

Socrates Bluntness Honesty Tact

If you don’t find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don’t want to ruin the evening.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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Often people that tell others they are extremely polite when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Agenda Anxiety Bluntness Fear Games Honesty Low Self Esteem Motives Paranoia Politeness Tact

Tact by its nature entails staying mum, prudently electing to forgo urging other people to pursue an alternative course of action. Creation of silent spaces in our own life and equitable distribution of periods of respite that allow for periods of equable inner reflection is necessary to spur personal growth. It is equally important to honor other people’s intrinsic need for periods of introspection, uninterrupted by unsolicited advice

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Kilroy J. Oldster Diplomatic Introspection Privacy Private Life Prudence Respecting Others Self Reflection Silence Tact

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

~ John Taliaferro

John Taliaferro Communication Statesmanship I Tact

Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring.[points to self]

~ Bill Lawrence

Bill Lawrence Caring Dr Cox Humour Sarcasm Scrubs Tact

In any case, I hadn’t gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, and is reputed to be a virtue.

~ Alexei Panshin

Alexei Panshin Privacy Tact Virtue

The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain,' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may cross

~ Jocelyn Murray

Jocelyn Murray Diplomacy Enemies And Friends Hostility Sea Ships Tact

[She] had the indefinable charm of someone who said little but thought much. Miss Prim had always felt that such people were at a marked advantage. They never said anything tactless, never spouted nonsense, never had cause to regret their words or justify themselves.

~ Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera

Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera Behavior Inspirational Tact

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Definitions Tact Wit

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

~ Lord Darling

Lord Darling Tact Diplomacy

Let us agree not to step on each other's feet said the cock to the horse.

~ English Proverb

English Proverb Tact Diplomacy

If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.

~ William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt Tact Diplomacy

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

~ Anonymous

Anonymous Tact Diplomacy

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Tact Diplomacy

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

~ Charles De Gaulle

Charles De Gaulle Tact Diplomacy

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

~ Anonymous

Anonymous Tact Diplomacy

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

~ Dean Acheson

Dean Acheson Tact Diplomacy

Diplomacy the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock.

~ Wynn Catlin

Wynn Catlin Tact Diplomacy

If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts with wish as a guest to dwell in the monastery and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place and does not perchance by his lavishness disturb the monastery but is simply content with what he finds he shall be received for as long as he desires. If indeed he find fault with anything or expose it reasonably and with the humility of charity the Abbott shall discuss it prudently lest perchance God had sent him for this very thing. But if he have been found gossipy and contumacious in the time of his sojourn as guest not only ought he not be joined to the body of the monastery but also it shall be said to him honestly that he must depart. If he does not go let two stout monks in the name of God explain the matter to him.

~ Saint Benedict

Saint Benedict Tact Diplomacy

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

~ Henry Wotton

Henry Wotton Tact Diplomacy
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