Emotional Intelligence Quotes

Emotional versatility is the art of making peace with the entire emotional spectrum by honing your capacity to channel various feelings along creative and constructive lines. It is not about controlling or condemning your feelings. It's about conducting your feelings in a self-edifying way. ~ T.K. Coleman

It can be proven that wounded people wound others. Walk circumspectly among wounded people, their injuries are deeply submerged in their brain's amygdala, and without the time-tested practice of emotional intelligence, you might find yourself scarred by association. Give your associations time to reveal their emotional intelligence or lack thereof; employers measure their associates seasonally, quarterly, and or annually; but ask yourself the question: (Q) WHY haven't you? ~ Tracey Bond

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence. ~ Daniel Goleman

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

The main thing to remember when making friends is to genuinely be interested in the other person and their life. 'Curiosity is the key'. ~ Megan Street

I thought missing my Dad would be the hardest thing I'd ever do; but the worst thing, the hardest thing, had turned out to be angry with someone you couldn't fight it out with. ~ Emily Henry

Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They're there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence. ~ T.K. Coleman

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed. ~ Deepak Chopra

When we deny thoughts our attention they cease to create conditions. ~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, PhD, MBA

I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive. ~ Christine Ebersole

Your mental attitude and its direction are critical factors in how you experience and navigate life. ~ Claudia Velandia

Anger is a sentry, stalking the edges of our boundaries and standing ready to defend them. ~ Jessica Moore

Be glad for your emotions. You are able to function in the world because of them. ~ Jessica Moore

People are hard to predict. The same music which moves one person to tears has little or no effect on the other. ~ Abhaidev

What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change. ~ Kevin Allen

Behind every trigger is a wound in our past. ~ Jessica Moore

The study of modern mindfulness meditation and emotional intelligence is deeply rooted in the ancient Vipassana meditation techniques. ~ Amit Ray

Everything you perceive, externally, is the manifestation of some internal part of you. If it was not, it would not be present in your perceived reality. ~ Tony Warrick

All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization. ~ Roshan Sharma

Emotional health is more important than a fit body. Unknowingly most of us focus on the latter hence the lack of inner-happiness, peace, love and fulfillment. ~ Maddy Malhotra

Love Request:

Isn't this all we request from love?
A brave, vulnerable and sincere exposure,
To be candidly seen in all our faults
Blemishes, quirks and flaws
Yet still be so implicitly loved
Cherished, accepted
And most of all,
Wanted ~ Christine Evangelou

You will be more emotionally aware when you are able to see the connection between the symptoms and what you are doing now. As yourself, "What feeling is underlying my current actions?" This is a way to become aware. Self-awareness is the first step in emotional intelligence. We cannot self-regulate if we are not aware of what we are feeling. ~ Shawn Kent Hayashi

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike. ~ Daniel Goleman

Having hope," writes Daniel Goleman in his study of emotional intelligence, "means that one will not give in to overwhelming anxiety, a defeatist attitude, or depression in the face of difficult challenges or setbacks." Hope is "more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right"; it is "believing you have the will and the way to accomplish your goals. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

Emotional literacy is a prerequisite for empathy and psychological resilience. ~ Gina Senarighi

I like to think I've written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters. ~ Carla H. Krueger

What does it mean to be grounded? It means no unkind being is taking up space rent free in your body. It also means you love deeply without need for revenge. It means digging beneath the machine mind to understand and see the beauty in each human being. ~ Deborah Bravandt

If you want to positively influence others, begin by influencing how they experience you. ~ Sylvia Baffour

Emotional intelligence is the foundation of leadership. It balances flexibility with toughness, vision with passion, compassion with justice. ~ Amit Ray

Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them. ~ George Steinbrenner

Some people are somewhat immature: when they see your 'nakedness', they would shout for everyone to hear! Beware of such people! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All oppression starts with the experience of Lack. A lack of ideas, creativity, money, investors, health, friends, love, or kindness. Lack creates the emotional effect of Depression. ~ Deborah Bravandt

Emotions can get in the way or get you on the way ~ Mavis Mazhura

Empathy is what makes people feel safe in relationships. Along with self-awareness, it's the soul of emotional intelligence, guiding people toward prosocial behavior and fairness in dealings with others. In contrast, nonempathic people overlook your feelings and don't seem to imagine your experience or be sensitive to it. It's important to be aware of this, because a person who isn't responsive to your feelings won't be emotionally safe when the two of you have any kind of disagreement. ~ Lindsay C. Gibson

Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work ... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can. ~ Warren G. Bennis

It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events. ~ Wayde Goodall

The workings of the amygdala and its interplay with the neocortex are at the heart of emotional intelligence. ~ Daniel Goleman

Vipassan meditation is the best way to unlearn old habits of basal ganglia and amygdala, and strengthen the neocortex of the brain. ~ Amit Ray

Shift your attention, and your emotion shifts. Shift your emotion, and your attention shifts. ~ Frederick Dodson

Emotional healing requires more than simply changing how you feel. Your emotions are merely symptoms of the problem - not the problem itself. Even when they hurt. ~ Jessica Moore

Our approach to modern health care focuses so much on removing symptoms, that we've learned to equate immediate relief with healing. But healing is much more than simply feeling better in the moment; it requires true transformation, and transformation is rarely comfortable. ~ Jessica Moore

Emotion will never seize to prevail logic. ~ Markus W. Lunner

You can alter your emotions by changing your breathing patterns. Yoga breathing can release the untold stories inside you. ~ Amit Ray

Just like it is so important to understand the difference in thinking and feeling to increase our Emotional Intelligence, it is important to take the time to understand the difference in emotional feelings and gut feelings to further increase our intelligence and facility of intuition that we call Intuitional Intelligence. ~ Martha Char Love

Emotional intelligence, the perfect oxymoron! ~ David Nicholls

If you want to avoid emotional mediocrity, be on time for every present moment. ~ Jacinta Mpalyenkana

There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation. ~ Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Instead of labelling your emotions as problems to solve, you can see them as signals to interpret. Instead of judging your desires as shameful aberrations, you can learn to meet them in healthier ways. Instead of calling yourself critical names when you cannot build or break certain habits, you can explore your motivations. You can become a student of yourself rather than always seeking a wiser teacher. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

At first, his charisma made it addictive to be around him; but over time I recognized it was also a façade. There was a wounded boy inside of him. He had grown up without a dad, so it made sense to me that he sought constant validation. I found it endearing, humanizing; until he started to indulge that little boy. There were tantrums, there was acting out, there was his need to control things that he no business controlling, but he was still that boy, and I loved him.



So I stayed thinking it would get better, and then one morning I woke up to one of life's clarion calls. I deserved better than this. That night I said I was leaving. ~ Steven Rowley

People who seek psychotherapy for psychological, behavioral or relationship problems tend to experience a wide range of bodily complaints ... The body can express emotional issues a person may have difficulty processing consciously ... I believe that the vast majority of people don't recognize what their bodies are really telling them. The way I see it, our emotions are music and our bodies are instruments that play the discordant tunes. But if we don't know how to read music, we just think the instrument is defective. ~ Charlette Mikulka

Life is a juggling act with your own emotions. The trick is to always keep something in your hand and something in the air. ~ Chloe Thurlow

it is my firm belief that in life, you get, what you give! ~ Jeffrey Chatham

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them. ~ William Blake

A lack of emotional engagement in the affair affirms higher credibility. ~ Pawan Mishra

Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak how matured he is with silence in his most tempting moment is truly a matured person. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Excuses are things like sausages stuffed with reason, in the skin of a lie. ~ Kianu Starr

Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait ... and peace will appear. ~ Guy Finley

Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence) EQ (emotional intelligence) the sensing and wisdom of the heart - - and SQ (spiritual intelligence) having to do with meaning, purpose and integrity around your selected value system and your believed source. When combined, they change the world for good. ~ Stephen Covey

Well, listen, anger doesn't get anything done, so you have to find out: How do you make it work? That's why I was always maniacal about transforming every problem into a puzzle which I can solve. I can solve a puzzle - a problem just stresses me out. ~ Quincy Jones

The very best thing we can do for others isn't soaking up their pain, it is actually holding space for them. Holding space for a person means giving them the room to grieve or vent while still maintaining our own boundaries. ~ Mateo Sol

A loving heart is not enough to develop a successful relationship. Considerable EQ and social skills are necessary. ~ Anoir Ou-Chad

When anxiety is in balance, it helps us to think ahead to the future, make plans, and get organized. ~ Jessica Moore

If you keep running away from yourself then be warned that love, joy, peace and fulfillment will keep running away from you! ~ Maddy Malhotra

Detachment is a tricky business. If we are seeking to access the innate wisdom in our emotions, detachment itself cannot be the goal… because in order to hear what our emotions have to say, we have to be willing to feel them. ~ Jessica Moore

Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ - Cultural Intelligence. ~ Julia Middleton

When the weeks have built up with frustration and immense stress and one of your co-workers, a manager or an employee triggers irritation or angers you, knowing how to respond in a mindful way can pay huge dividends. Knowing how to not take other people's emotional baggage personally and intuitively sensing when to bring up concerns and when not to is an expression of emotional intelligence. This is all possible if we are being truly mindful. ~ Christopher Dines

When you have an open mind and you're flexible....not married to your beliefs, you can see clearly because you're able to feel and remain neutral at the same time.
You're curious. ~ Dana Gore

A belligerent samurai, an old Japanese tale goes, once challenged a Zen master to explain the concept of heaven and hell. The monk replied with scorn, "You're nothing but a lout - I can't waste my time with the likes of you!"
His very honor attacked, the samurai flew into a rage and, pulling his sword from its scabbard, yelled "I could kill you for your impertinence."
"That," the monk calmly replied, "is hell."
Startled at seeing the truth in what the master pointed out about the fury that had him in its grip, the samurai calmed down, sheathed his sword, and bowed, thanking the monk for the insight.
"And that,"said the monk "is heaven."
The sudden awakening of the samurai to his own agitated state illustrates the crucial difference between being caught up in a feeling and becoming aware that you are being swept away by it. Socrates's injunction "Know thyself" speaks to the keystone of emotional intelligence: awareness of one's own feelings as they occur. ~ Daniel Goleman

All hurt is founded on attachment to anything regardless of its nature. When we detach we vibrationally send ourselves back into the flow of life. ~ Jacinta Mpalyenkana

If you don't know how you feel, you will certainly not know, why you think the way you think. ~ Krishna Saagar Rao

All conflicts are rooted in emotions. If you can satiate the emotions, you can resolve the conflicts. ~ Krishna Saagar Rao

What you think about a person is different from understanding a person. ~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

Just as your body has self-regulating mechanisms, like perspiring to cool you down and shivering to warm you up, you can regulate your emotions according to the circumstances. You can abstain from over-reacting, and you know how to set boundaries and how to say "no. ~ Susan C. Young

Life is a balance between emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) and intelligence quotient (IQ). ~ Amit Ray

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego. ~ Alan Cohen

When time and emotions gel, a new awareness forms. ~ Joel T. McGrath

True emotional healing doesn't happen without feeling. The only way out is through. ~ Jessica Moore

There is no weakness in being able to love fully. It takes courage, tenacity, and an emotional intelligence that most people are incapable of. ~ Alafia Stewart

An emotion does not cause pain. Resistance or suppression of emotion causes pain. ~ Frederick Dodson

We live in an adolescent society, Neverland, where never growing up seems more the norm than the exception. Little boys wearing expensive suits and adult bodies should not be allowed to run big corporations. They shouldn't be allowed to run governments, armies, religions, small businesses and charities either and just quietly, they make pretty shabby husbands and fathers too. Mankind has become Pankind and whilst "lost boys" abound, there is also an alarming increase in the number of "lost girls. ~ Daniel Prokop

People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide. ~ Travis Bradberry

True healing, just like all growth, requires being willing to work our edge of discomfort. ~ Jessica Moore

People treating their minds like bin, by keeping negative emotions for example jealousy and hatred, cannot experience happiness and peace. ~ Hina Hashmi

Certain emotions drive certain thoughts and actions. Knowing your emotional drivers is essential to regulate behavior. ~ Krishna Saagar Rao

Emotions are an essential part of human intelligence. Without emotional intelligence, AI is incomplete. ~ Amit Ray

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

In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case. ~ Peter David

All emotions give us valuable information, and trying to simply clear away problematic emotions equates to denying the wisdom of our emotional body. ~ Jessica Moore

Who knows? Life may just be a Positive Conspiracy bent on putting us in the right place at the right time every living, breathing moment of the day. It just takes a certain kind of perspective to see this. Realizing this can put our "analyzer" on hold, our interpretive mind on "ga-ga" and our hearts on breathless. ~ Antero Alli

Emotional security is the hall-mark of great leadership. ~ Krishna Saagar Rao

Whether it is rational or empirical, your approach to life must always be empathetic. Emotional intelligence is acquired when knowledge and empathy are combined and applied to situations regularly in everyday life. ~ Stewart Stafford

All emotional intelligence begins with awareness. When we fail to notice what we're feeling, our responses to that feeling will be habitual and automatic. But when we identify our emotions, we can consciously choose to act on them in healthy and intelligent ways. ~ Jessica Moore

children whose parents talk with them about their experiences tend to have better access to the memories of those experiences. Parents who speak with their children about their feelings have children who develop emotional intelligence and can understand their own and other people's feelings more fully. Shy children whose parents nurture a sense of courage by offering supportive explorations of the world tend to lose their behavioral inhibition, ~ Daniel J. Siegel

Intellectual intelligence +Emotional intelligence + Spiritual intelligence =
Extraordinary intelligence. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is the mind's job to protect and take care of you, to solve your problems and make sure you're safe. So, if you feel a surge of emotional upset, it moves into action, trying to help, looking for the source of the upset - for the problems - and generating solutions.
Under these conditions, the key to getting the mind to go on standby - to stilling the mind's compulsive thinking - lies in recognizing, accepting, and working with the emotional upset. Once you address the emotional undercurrent, once it is no longer churning inside you, the mind can switch off and quite literally leave you in peace. ~ Sharon Rose Summers

Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action. ~ Susan Oakey-Baker

Gard the doors of your temple, do not let anyone pollute it with there mess. ~ Patricio Telman Chincocolo

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined. ~ Daniel Goleman

Admittedly, most high school guys lack emotional intelligence. They develop it later in life."
I smiled. "Are you telling me guys are dumb? ~ Heather Davis