Quotes are my favourite tools to stay mentally strong .
All great leaders love to read quotes which helps them stay mentally strong and confident .
In this post you’ll find some of my favourite emotional intelligence quotes from all areas of emotional intelligence -like self awareness , self management ,empathy , motivation ,social skills, emotions ,and leadership so that you can be mentally and emotionally more strong, confident and handle any adversity calmly in your profession and life .
1.“Emotions are great servants but poor masters”
Kajana Cetshwayo
2.”I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde
3. “There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning is all linked.”
Eric Jensen
4. “Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behaviour and relationships.”
Travis Bradberry
5.“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.”
Joshua Freedman
6. “The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.”
John Mayer And Peter Salovey
7. “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
8.“What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills – your EQ — not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.”
Daniel Goleman
9.”Feelings are something you have; not something you are.”
Shannon L. Alder
10.”Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
11.“If you are interested in emotions, learning about them will satisfy your curiosity. If you depend upon emotional knowledge in your job, learning more about emotions would likely help.”
John Mayer
12.“No doubt emotional intelligence is more rare 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
13.”What worries you, masters you.”
John Locke
14. “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
15.“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
Benjamin Franklin
16. “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
17. “When anger rises, think of the consequences.”
Confucius
18. “We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.”
Marshall B. Rosenberg
19.”The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
Voltaire
20. “Your day will go the way your emotional intelligence guides both your thoughts and actions.”
T.Y Howard
21. “It is not the stress that makes us fall, it is how we respond to situations of stress.”
Wayde Goodall
22.”Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
Albert Einstein
23. “Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.”
Daniel Goleman
24. “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
25.”Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
26. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
C.G Jung
27. “Knowledge kills your emotions.”
Pragati
28. “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
29.“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”
Daniel Goleman
30.“When you start to lose your temper, remember: There’s nothing manly about rage. It’s courtesy and kindness that define a human being- and a man. That’s who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners.”
Marcus Aurelius
31.“Nothing adds up faster than the emotions ‘unaccounted for’.”
Dr. Sandeep Atre
32. “Emotions and reason are intertwined, and both are critical to problem-solving.”
Antonio Damasio.
33.“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
34. “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
35. “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
36.“Go within. There, and only there, will you find the answers you seek. The experience of another can be touched, yet only the truth from within you can be felt. The water within shall bathe you to truly set you free.”
Ulonda Faye, Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul
37.“Don’t let yourself loose without tapping into your ‘power to choose’.”
Dr. Sandeep Atre
38.“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
39.The lack of understanding of our emotions lead to the creation of narratives that alter our thinking, awakens ego and fear and result in self-sabotage. Without becoming emotionally intelligent and mature, we will live in our shadows, lose ourselves and succumb to unhealthy coping mechanisms which become lifestyles.”
Kemi Sogunle, On Becoming Restored
40.”But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
Anne Frank
50. “It is amazing how once the mind is free from emotional contamination, logic and clarity emerge.”
Clyde De Souza
51. “When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life.”
Tara Meyer Robson
52. “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
53. “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
54. “Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and place.”
Oli Anderson
55.“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.”
Marshall B. Rosenberg
56. “The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.”
Robert Kiyosaki
57. “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
58. “Emotional intelligence is when you finally realize it’s not all about you.”
Peter Stark.
59. “Emotional Intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.”
Deepak Chopra.
60.“When we go deeper into every experience and emotion; especially, the painful ones. We tap into the source of our greatest hidden gifts.”
Ulonda Faye
61.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, Clear: A Guide to Treating Acne Naturally
62.“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
63. “Experiencing one’s self in a conscious manner- that is, gaining self-knowledge- is an integral part of learning.”
Karen Stone McCown
64.”Those that will not hear must be made to feel.”
German proverb
65 “Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.”
Epictetus.
66.“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.”
Dale Carnegie.
67.“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
68.”Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
Isaac Newton
69.“Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power, that is not easy.”
Aristotle
70.“One of the easiest ways to discover if someone is compatible with you is to gauge their emotional intelligence. Are they a kind and sensitive person? Will they be respectful towards your sensitivities? Or, are they emotionally stunted? Remember, we tend to attract narcissistic types who lack empathy.”
Aletheia Luna, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
71.”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
72.”Apologizing doesn’t always mean you’re wrong and the other person is right. It means you value your relationship more than your ego.”
Anonymous
73.”Empathy does not equal agreement.”
Chris Voss
74. “True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.”
Daniel Goleman
75.“Having healthy boundaries not only requires being able to say “no”, but also being willing and able to enforce that “no” when necessary.”
Jessica Moore
76.“Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that’s not a sideshow. That’s the cutting edge of human intelligence.”
Ray Kurzweil
77.“Intelligence, emotions, ethics, and values are part of human intelligence; without those, we are far away from human-level AI.”
Amit Ray, Compassionate Artificial Super intelligence Al 5.0
78.“Never stop because you are afraid – you are never so likely to be wrong.”
Fridtjof Nansen
79.“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
Nelson Mandela
80. “CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise – and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.”
Daniel Goleman
81.“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
82. “Leadership is all about emotional Intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.”
Rajeev Suri
83.“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
84.“What I’ve come to realize is that emotional intelligence was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.”
Kevin Allen
85. “A leader who understands emotional intelligence well achieves milestones.”
Ishita Vadher
86.“The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.”
Robert Kiyosaki
87. “As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.”
Amit Ray
88.“Our emotional intelligence makes our passion intelligent or unintelligent.”
Harjeet Khanduja, How Leaders Decide : Tackling Biases and Risks in Decision Making
89.“Emotional intelligent people use self-awareness to their advantage to assess a situation, get perspective, listen without judgment, process, and hold back from reacting head on. At times, it means the decision to sit on your decision. By thinking over your situation rationally, without drama, you’ll eventually arrive at other, more sane conclusions.”
Marcel Schwantes
90.“We are all in favour of emotional intelligence. Intelligence can take emotion as a privileged counselling partner. However, it does not allow the emotion to take possession of us, besiege our mind, and subjugate our thinking. The emotion must regulate our thoughts, not manipulate nor substitute them. Our perception is only a biased picture of reality, and emotions are individual or provisional. Therefore, critical thinking and emotional thinking must go hand in hand.
(“No monsters hide at this point” )”
Erik Pevernagie
I hope you found the quotes useful and helpful .
Babita Sharma
Leadership Coach
