Samuel Okoruwa
The importance of emotional intelligence can never be over emphasised. It is that key ingredient that will help boost your self-awareness, self-control, and help you in your daily dealings with people. Moreover, it is one of the key traits of a great leader.
Here are 25 quotes about the importance of emotional intelligence and why you should pay more attention to it.
1. 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
2. When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. – Dale Carnegie
3. 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
4. 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
5. Anyone can be angry–that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way–that is not easy. -Aristotle
6. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia
7. Self-awareness is a trait – or maybe ‘practice’ is the more accurate way to put it – that everyone can always improve at. It is part emotional intelligence, part perceptiveness, part critical thinking. It means knowing your weaknesses, of course, but it also means knowing your strengths and what motivates you. – Neil Blumenthal
8. Emotions can get in the way or get you on the way. -Mavis Mazhura
9. When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a lifelong effect. -Peace Pilgrim
9. 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
10. 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
11. Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand … prejudice, fear, and ignorance walk hand in hand. -Peart
12. 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
13. 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
14. Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions–so find out how to light their fires. -Jeff Dewar
15. 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
16. When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air. -Stephen R. Covey
17. To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments. -Brian Koslow
18. We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. -Eric Micha’el Leventhal
19. It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. -Dean Koontz
21. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. -C.G. Jung
22. The way to do is to be. -Lao Tzu
23. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others? -C.H. Hamel
24. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. -Jack Welch
25. Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.
-Anthony de Mello
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