33 Emotional Intelligence Quotes

“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

Emotional Intelligence Quotes

1. “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”- Elizabeth Gilbert

2. “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

3. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” – Viktor E. Frankl

4. “Strong, negative emotions (fear, anger, anxiety, hopelessness) tend to narrow our minds—it’s as though our peripheral vision has been cut off because we’re so focused on the peril that’s front and center.” – Marc Brackett

5. “It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions.” – Oscar Wilde

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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

Emotional Intelligence Quotes

9. “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

10. “Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.” ― Epictetus

11. “Emotion can be the enemy, if you give in to your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions because the body always follows the mind.” – Bruce Lee

12. “Always, emotional freedom involves choosing where you put your attention.” – Judith Orloff

13. “Suppressing the feelings only makes it harder to let them go. Expression is the opposite of depression.” – Edith Egar

14. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl

15. “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.” – Benjamin Franklin

16. “The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.” – Robert Kiyosaki

Emotional Intelligence Quotes

17. “Each moment is a choice. No matter how frustrating or boring or constraining or painful or oppressive our experience, we can always choose how we respond.” – Marc Brackett

18. “It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us. It is our active resistance against these states of mind and body. If you wake up with low energy, hopeless thoughts, and a lack of motivation – that is a signal from you to you. That is a sure sign that something in your mind or in your life is making you sick, and you must attend to that signal.” – Vironika Tugaleva

19. “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

20. “When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.” – Benedict de Spinoza

21. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – C.G Jung

22. “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

23. “The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.” – Oscar Wilde

24. “Hard times of any kind—financial, familial, or job-related—create more intense and often prolonged negative emotions that ultimately result in stress. In addition to the physical costs of stress, such as weight gain and heart disease, stress also taxes our mental resources.” – Travis Bradberry

25. “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

Emotional Intelligence Quotes

26. “How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.” – Judith Orloff

27. “You do control the thoughts that follow an emotion, and you have a great deal of say in how you react to an emotion—as long as you are aware of it.” ― Travis Bradberry

28. “Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion.” – Anonymous

29. “Today, when nearly every question can be handled instantly by Siri, or Google, or Alexa, we’re losing the habit of pausing to look inward, or to one another, for answers. But even Siri doesn’t know everything. And Google can’t tell you why your son or daughter is feeling hopeless or excited, or why your significant other feels not so significant lately, or why you can’t shake that chronic low-level anxiety that plagues you.” – Vironika Tugaleva

30. “Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us out in marching onward.” — Henry Ford

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

32. “Don’t let people who don’t care about you, manipulate your mind, feelings, and emotions or control how you think about yourself. Never give that much power to someone else.” – Karon Waddell

33. “Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we have a clear picture of it.” — Benedict Spinoza