60 Best Emotional Intelligence Quotes To Make You Think
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Emotional intelligence helps you reduce mental stress, help you be socially interactive, and build your confidence to dwell emotionally stronger.
This Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi quote, “strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will”, can help you. It can help you take on any challenge that the life throws at you.
Emotional intelligence is an extremely important quality in the present times. Individuals who are emotionally strong can handle any adversity. Here are the best emotional intelligence quotes to make you think and help you be emotionally stronger than ever.
If you like this article, make sure to check out [positive energy quotes] and empathy quotes afterwards.
Best Emotional Intelligence Quotes
As Mahatma Gandhi has said, emotional Strength, as we call it “inner strength,” makes you stronger and better. Read for the best quotes on emotional intelligence.
1. “Expect the breakthrough and expect to learn.”
- Kathleen Spike.
2. “There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning is all linked.”
- Eric Jensen.
3. “We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.”
- Marshall B. Rosenberg.
4. “Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and place.”
- Oli Anderson.
5. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.”
- Dale Carnegie.
6. “The only way to change someone’s mind is to connect with them from the heart.”
- Rasheed Ogunlaru.
7. “Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.”
- Travis Bradberry.
8. “The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”
- Daniel Goleman.
9. “Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.”
- Daniel Goleman.
10. “Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: “The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.”
- Jess C. Scott.
11. “Let us fear the torment of emotions that might sway in its wake chaos through the sound construction of reason and discernment. Let us cherish instead emotional intelligence along the intricate and tortuous paths of life’s labyrinth.”
- Erik Pevernagie.
12. “As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.”
- Amit Ray.
13. “People whose eyes shine are happy to be alive. They see the beauty of life and its glory, even when things aren’t easy.”
- Jelena Pantić.
14. “The true losers in life, are not those who try and fail, but those who fail to try.”
- Jess C. Scott.
15. “We don’t know where we’re going, we don’t know what’s going to happen, but no one can take away from you what you put in your own mind.”
- Edith Eger.
16. “My message for everyone is the same: that if we can learn to identify, express, and harness our feelings, even the most challenging ones, we can use those emotions to help us create positive, satisfying lives.”
- Marc Brackett.
17. “It is a choice. No matter how frustrating or boring or constraining or painful or oppressive our experience, we can always choose how we respond.”
- Edith Eger.
18. “It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of Intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head. It is the unique intersection of both.”
- David Caruso.
19. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
- Aristotle.
Motivational Emotional Intelligence Quotes
Emotional intelligence allows you to regulate and manage your emotions to make yourself emotionally and socially strong. Read on for some intelligent quotes that shapes our interactions.
20. “Leadership is all about emotional Intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.”
- Rajeev Suri.
21. “Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains, or emotional intelligence.”
- Dale Archer.
22. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
- C.G Jung.
23. “Our feeling is not there to be cast out or conquered. They’re there to engaged and expressed with imagination and Intelligence.”
- T.K Coleman.
24. “Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.”
- Epictetus.
25. “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else: you are the one who gets burned.”
- Buddha.
26. “You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”
- Dale Carnegie.
27. “We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions.”
- Salovey And Mayer.
28. “Emotional intelligence is when you finally realize it’s not all about you.”
- Peter Stark.
29. “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
- Benjamin Franklin.
30. “Emotional Intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.”
- Deepak Chopra.
31. “The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.”
- Robert Kiyosaki.
32. “Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.”
- Norman Vincent Peale.
33. “Experiencing one’s self in a conscious manner- that is, gaining self-knowledge- is an integral part of learning.”
- Karen Stone McCown.
34. “Men who do not turn to face their own pain are too often prone to inflict it on others.”
- Terrence Real.
35. “If you cannot feel your emotions, if you are cut off from them, you will eventually experience them on a purely physical level, as a physical problem or symptom.”
- Eckhart Tolle.
36. “Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”
- Eckhart Tolle.
37. “When anger rises, think of the consequences.”
- Confucius.
38. “What matters is hard work and emotional intelligence.”
- Millard Drexler.
Fantastic Emotional Intelligence Quotes
Being emotionally strong is something that needs motivation and intelligence to manage and understand. Read on for some interesting emotional intelligence quotes from Aristotle, Daniel Goleman emotional intelligence quotes as well as emotional intelligence quotes from other famous personalities.
39. “By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.”
- Ray Kurzweil.
40. “CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.”
- Daniel Goleman.
41. “One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
42. “Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That’s why they look alike.”
- Daniel Goleman.
43. “The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.”
- John Mayer And Peter Salovey.
44. “Emotional intelligence is the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, connection, and influence.”
- Robert K. Cooper.
45. “No doubt emotional intelligence is rarer than book smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important in the making of a leader. You just can’t ignore it.”
- Jack Welch.
46. “Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.”
- Daniel Goleman.
47. “True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.”
- Daniel Goleman.
48. “There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.”
- Daniel Goleman.
49. “Emotions and feelings…hmm, I used to have those, when I was a kid.”
- Ayush Mehre.
50. “A leader who understands emotional intelligence well achieves milestones.”
- Ishita Vadher.
Greatest Emotional Intelligence Quotes
Emotional intelligence helps shape our interactions with others by adding to our skills. Read on for some of the greatest emotional intelligence quotes of your lives.
51. “Knowledge kills your emotions.”
- Pragati.
52. “Emotions and reason are intertwined, and both are critical to problem-solving.”
- Antonio Damasio.
53. “We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions.”
- Salovey And Mayer.
54. “When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life.”
- Tara Meyer Robson.
55. “Your day will go the way your emotional intelligence guides both your thoughts and actions.”
- T.Y Howard.
56. “Walk like the lion, talk like doves, live like elephants, and love like a small child.”
- Santosh Kalwar.
57. “It is not the stress that makes us fall, it is how we respond to situations of stress.”
- Wayde Goodall.
58. “It is amazing how once the mind is free from emotional contamination, logic and clarity emerge.”
- Clyde De Souza.
59. “Calm your storm(s). today’s forecast…. Peace of mind and happiness all day long, no matter what.”
- T.Y Howard.
60. “Inhale emotional intelligence exhale forgiveness and civility.”
- T.Y Howard.
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