Quotes about Emotional Intelligence

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. -Daniel Goleman

75 percent of careers are derailed for reasons related to emotional competencies, including inability to handle interpersonal problems; unsatisfactory team leadership during times of difficulty or conflict; or inability to adapt to change or elicit trust. -Center for Creative Leadership

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. -Dale Carnegie

When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves. -Jess C. Scott

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and place. -Oli Anderson

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. -John Hancock

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. -Epictetus

Experience is not what happens to you--it's how you interpret what happens to you. -Aldous Huxley

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, PhD

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

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

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. -Vincent van Gogh

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions. -Donald Calne

If we lack emotional intelligence, whenever stress rises the human brain switches to autopilot and has an inherent tendency to do more of the same, only harder. Which, more often than not, is precisely the wrong approach in today's world.
-Robert K. Cooper

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

To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments. -Brian Koslow

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
 -Carl R. Rogers

In my 35 years in business, I have always trusted my emotions. I have always believed that by touching emotion you get the best people to work with you, the best clients to inspire you, the best partners and most devoted customers.
 -Kevin Roberts

Emotional intelligence is a way of recognizing, understanding, and choosing how we think, feel, and act. It shapes our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. It defines how and what we learn; it allows us to set priorities; it determines the majority of our daily actions. Research suggests it is responsible for as much as 80 percent of the "success" in our lives. -J. Freedman

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground." -- Alan Cohen

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us--how we can take it, what we do with it--and that is what really counts in the end. -- Joseph Fort Newton

When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life. -- Tara Meyer Robson

Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding. -- Daniel Goleman

Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what's real. -- Doc Childre

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving... and that's your own self. -- Aldous Huxley

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. -- Joshua L. Liebman