Quotes About Emotional intelligence

She said, hoping to soothe him with a little reason, which proved that she knew nothing about love.

Je suis en proie à la colère presque tous les jours de ma vie, Jo ; mais j'ai appris à ne pas la manifester et j'espère encore apprendre à ne plus la ressentir ; quand bien même cela devrait me prendre quarante autres années de ma vie.

The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his.

The essential function of challenging behavior is to communicate to adults that a kid doesn't possess the skills to handle certain demands in certain situations.

If you respond to a child who's having difficulty putting his emotions aside so as to think through solutions by imposing your will more intensively and "teaching him who's the boss," you probably won't help him manage his emotions. Quite the opposite, in fact.

The most cognitively brilliant people usually have had to sacrifice their emotional selves.

A wise person would have known this, but sometimes it is better to feel a prickle than to be wise.

slowly, meditation gives our amygdala a chance to make more calm and measured assessments of situations.

Why should one expect that a woman great in intellect should not love greatly, too?

At one point in my life, I learned how to think. I used to know how to feel. In war, these are lessons best forgotten.

Self-esteem isn't an emotion. Self-esteem is just self-knowledge, a solid understanding of your limitations. It's living according to your own standards.

She told me that real strength is the capacity for kindness to others, and that I should do whatever I could to find that kind of strength. She said she couldn't tell me how to go about doing that, because she never found it herself, but that people who where strong enough to be kind to others could always get by in this world.

Merely accepting that we are lazy, distracted, petty, easily provoked to anger, and inclined to waste our time in ways that we will later regret is not a path to happiness.

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.

Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

You will find that success in life comes far easier when you maintain a cool head and a warm heart, rather than a hot head and cold feet.

Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.

The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.