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Tact is the ability to do or say things without offending or upsetting others

• Tact: The ability to do or say things without offending or upsetting other people.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Tact: Skill and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues. Oxford Dictionary
• Right speech,  Discretion,  Be impeccable with your word

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Tact is thinking about what you say and leave unsaid

• Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it’s opposite, the unthought part of which you say. Henry Van Dyke

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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy

• Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton
• Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. Howard W. Newton

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves

• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln
• Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them. Carl Zuckmay

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Tact is never missing a good chance to shut up …

• The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. Josh Billings
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Dorothy Nevill
• 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
• Never miss a good chance to shut up. Will Rogers
• Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. Orson Rega Card
• Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. Robert Charles Benchley
• Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence. English Proverb
• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. Walter Bagehot
• If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. Austin O’Malley
• Be careful with your words. Once they’re said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten. Hussein Nishah
• A person is master to those words they don’t say, and slave to the ones they do. John Reyes

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… for a tactful silence at the right time can be better than any speech

• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch
• Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence. Spanish Proverb
• Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Martin Farquhar Tupper
• I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence. Publilius Syrus
• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle
• Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted. We should all learn just to be quiet at times. Hussein Nishah
• Silence

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Tact is leaving unkind words unsaid

• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. Winston Churchill
• The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Dorothy Nevill
• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Bierce
• Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. Horace
• There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. Frederika Bremer
• Harsh words can hurt a person more than physical pain.
• Remember that cruel words deeply hurt. Remember that loving words quickly heal.   Jackson Brown, Jr.
• The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. Josh Billings
• The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood. Buddha
• Kindness

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Tact is an important virtue …

• Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. Benjamin Disraeli
• Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. William Gilmore Simms
• Virtue

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… even more golden than silence

• Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. Samuel Butler
• Silence

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Tact can achieve much …

• Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.  Grenville Kleiser

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… often much more than blunt force

• A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point where direct force might be in vain.
• A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. Benjamin Franklin
• Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon. Arthur Lynch

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In fact, without tact, even talent achieves little

• Men may have the gifts both of talent and of wit, but unless they have also prudence and judgment to dictate when, where, and the how those gifts are to be exerted, the possessors of them will conquer only where nothing is to be gained, and be defeated where everything is to be lost; they will be outdone by men of less brilliant, but more convertible qualifications, and whose strength, in one point, is not counterbalanced by any disproportion in another. Charles Caleb Colton
• Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents. William Gilmore Simms
• Talent is power; tact is skill.
• Talent

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Tact is the oil which lubricates society and smooths friction

• Tact is the oil which lubricates society and prevents its harsh and heterogeneous particles from grating against each other; and in proportion as a person possesses this valuable emollient, so will he go roughly or smoothly through the world. Charles William Day
• Conflict management

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Tact surmounts difficulties and removes obstacles

• Tact is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. William Scargill
• Obstacles

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Tact is an essential component of effective oratory

• 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, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. Charles Horton Cooley
• Public speaking

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Tact is required to listen and learn

• Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. Benjamin Disraeli
• Listening,  Learning

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All in all, tact has much to do with acceptability and success in life

• Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement–these are the martial virtues which must command success. Austin Phelps
• A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life. Charles Simmons
• Success

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Tact requires sound judgement and perception of character

• A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life. Charles Simmons
• Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. Sarah Orne Jewett

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Tact requires insight into people’s moods

• The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. Josiah Gilbert Holland
• Insight,  Mood

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By all means tell the truth but do it tactfully …

• Be honest, but also be tactful. Leslie Dean Brown
• Honesty,  Truth

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… for truth without love is brutality

• Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. Warren W. Wiersbe
• Love

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Tact is essential with friends, not just strangers

• Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Friendship

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Make sure your tact isn’t a form of avoiding something you need to face

• Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face. Frank Medlicott

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• Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried. Charles Caleb Colton
• 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 step on a man’s toes without messing up the shine on his shoes. Harry S. Truman
• Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that’s really where you wish they were. George E. Bergman
• Tact: the ability to tell a man he’s open-minded when he has a hole in his head. F. G. Kernan
• Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. Oliver Herford
• The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes. G.K. Chesterton
• To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. Oscar Wilde
• Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. Ambrose Bierce
• Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say. Craig Ferguson

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• Today I will communicate clearly and directly in my conversations with others. I will strive to avoid manipulative, indirect, or guilt- producing statements. I can be tactful and gentle, or assertive if necessary. I do what is right in the moment. Melody Beattie

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