Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Quote by Abraham Lincoln
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
- My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
- Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
- People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Best Quotes
- I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
- The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
- Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
- Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
- Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
- I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.