Emotional Intelligence Quotes

“People whose eyes shine are happy to be alive.
They see life and it’s glory even when things aren’t easy.
And because they see life, even through all the problems and obstacles, their eyes shine.”
― Jelena Pantic, Journey to the Center of the Heart

“There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to haters and those they believe they hate.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“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, Working with Emotional Intelligence

“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, Increasing Intuitional Intelligence: How the Awareness of Instinctual Gut Feelings Fosters Human Learning, Intuition, and Longevity

“Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and
place.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!”
― Ashish Patel

“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, Katie in Love

“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

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

“Emotions can get in the way or get you on the way”
― Mavis Mazhura

“I feel therefore I am.”
― Amit Abraham

“It is not difficult for an unwise mother quite unintentionally to centre the heterosexual feelings of a young son upon herself, and it is true that, if this is done, the evil consequences pointed out by Freud will probably ensue. This is, however, much less likely to occur if the mother's sexual life is satisfying to her, for in that case she will not look to her child for a type of emotional satisfaction which ought to be sought only from adults. The parental impulse in its purity is an impulse to care for the young, not to demand affection from them, and if a woman is happy in her sexual life she will abstain spontaneously from all improper demands for emotional response from her child.”
― Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

“If you fail to know how to move with people without emotional discipline, you shall surely become the color of their emotions whenever they go beyond the boundaries of their emotions to display the real and true color of their emotions”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Running a marathon with a backpack is tough and may hinder you from winning the race. Don’t let the baggage from your past - heavy with fear, guilt, and anger - slow you down.”
― Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

“Sometimes breaking down is the only solution to stepping up.”
― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

“Like many liberal men in the age of feminism, he believed women should have equal access to jobs and be given equal pay, but when it came to matters of home and heart he still believed caregiving was the female role. Like many men, he wanted a woman to be 'just like his mama' so that he did not have to do the work of growing up.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“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, Sir Apropos of Nothing

“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 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, Freedom Without Permission: How to Live Free in a World That Isn't

“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, Freedom Without Permission: How to Live Free in a World That Isn't

“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, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

“Poor feeling hijacks thinking for self-deception: to hide harsh truths, avoid action, evade responsibility, and, as the existentialists might put it, flee from freedom. Thus, poor feeling is a kind of moral failing, indeed, the deepest kind, and virtue principally consists in correcting and refining our emotions and the values that they reflect. To feel the right thing is to do the right thing, without any particular need for conscious thought or effort.”
― Neel Burton, Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions

“The first person to fire out of your life when you take your power back, is the one you abused the most, and he or she did not stand up for him/herself.”
― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

“The key to achieving desired results and gaining freedom from unwanted feelings lies within you.”
― Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

“People treating their minds like bin, by keeping negative emotions for example jealousy and hatred, cannot experience happiness and peace.”
― Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment

“A lack of emotional engagement in the affair affirms higher credibility.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“I look forward to the day when business is less about being busy and more about being of service.

When Houses of Cards, become Houses of Hearts.

We can no longer afford to squander our passion on cold economics. It is time to reclaim our most valuable commodity and devote it to what’s right. Devote it to concern & creation. To meaningful encounters & purpose-bound experiences.

May we no longer do business, but build places of thriving instead; ruled by one truth only ~ the wisdom of our hearts.”
― Ina Catrinescu

“The brain is your emotional cockpit. Lots of buttons and levers. Best to learn how to steer responsibly.”
― Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life

“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, Choose Awareness