Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Hell, sit back and work on yourself. How are you going to offer something to somebody else if you ain't been to visit you yet?

A woman's sense of self and power should come not from the number of heads she can turn, but rather from the minds and hearts she can turn.

Before you have an argument with your boss, you'd better take a good look at both sides--his side & the outside.

The heart never takes the place of the head: But it can, and should, obey it.

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

I do not expect from someone what they will not or cannot give me.

If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew, and know what's truly real.

If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew, and know what's truly real.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

More are taken in by love than by cunning.

Great thoughts come from the heart

Work each day on your thoughts rather than concentrating on your behavior. It is your thinking that creates the feelings that you have and ultimately your actions as well.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

sometimes it's not necessary to know what elephants or people are thinking, as long as one honors what they are feeling.

No one ever teaches us how to change from an angry to a non-angry person. No one ever tells us that anger causes 'you' suffering and is not helpful. That it stops 'your' peace of mind and everybody else's. It's never talked about in a practical way, only a moralistic way.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

But when the tables are turned and we feel wretched, that softens us up. It ripens our hearts. It becomes the ground for understanding others.

What we hate in ourselves, we'll hate in others. To the degree that we have compassion for ourselves, we will also have compassion for others.