Quotes About Emotional intelligence

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.

Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.