Emotional intelligence quotes
What is Emotional Intelligence? It is your ability to understand your emotions and be able to control them in order to manage your behavior and relationship towards yourself and other people.
Emotional intelligence keeps you strong through hardships of life. It also brings positivity to your life and earns your respect and true friends. When you posses emotional intelligence, you can be sure to manage your stress, motivate yourself and build strong collaborative skills.
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Here are 25 emotional intelligence quotes to motivate you;

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“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.” Epictetus
“To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments.” –Brian Koslow
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” Benjamin Franklin
“Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.” – Alan Cohen
“Your day will go the way your emotional intelligence guides both your thoughts and actions.” T. Y Howard
“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 life around.” Leo Buscaglia
“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
“The only way to change someone’s mind is to connect with them from the heart.” Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.” Eckhart Tolle
“Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game, the risk however is that you will surely lose the person for a lifetime.” William Shakespeare
“Apologizing doesn’t mean you are wrong and the other person is right. It means you value your relationship more than your ego.” Unknown
The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotions lead to action and reason leads to conclusions.” Donald Calne
“If we lack emotional intelligence, then whenever stress rises the human brain switches to autopilot and has an inherent tendency to do more of the same only harder. This more often than not is precisely the wrong approach in today’s world.” Robert Cooper
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them and dominate them.” Oscar Wilde
“Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.” Barry N. Kaufman
“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think and feel.” Marshall Rosenberg
“Respect other people’s feelings. It might not mean anything to you, but it could mean everything to them.” Roy Bennett
“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
“Do not shut down your emotions. Embrace them. Your emotions are your internal compass telling you whether or not you are on track. Use them to help cultivate your passion or motivate yourself to change situations and circumstances that hold you back from achieving your goals.” Jillian Michaels
It is not wrong to be upset. It is not wrong to cry. It is not wrong to want attention. It is not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain.” Bryant Harrison McGill
“Find a place inside where there is joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” Joseph Campbell
“Make the most of your regrets, never smother your sorrow but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” Henry D. Thoreau
“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.” Dr. Robert Cooper
“When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life.” Tara M. Robson
“The most important decision you can make is to be in a good mood.” Voltaire
Conclusion
While emotional intelligence deals with being aware of our feelings and thoughts and how we should be conducting ourselves in front of others, still we have to learn how to acquire it as it is a process. By understanding what stresses us it helps us to achieve this. Also learning to communicate well and having a listening ear is of essence. Moreover we have to learn how to respect other people’s opinions, remove negativity around us and work on having better relationship with them. By doing this, we get to achieve emotional intelligence. Being a process, one can learn the skills anytime and success does not come in a fortnight. It requires patience.
However we will not have achieved this, if we will not have learned the importance of controlling our emotions. When we let emotions take the lead, then most likely it will lead to regrets later. A person who is aware of himself knows his limits, and behaves within the constraints of the norms and rules. He is not only careful to hurt himself but also his loved ones, friends and even strangers. Respect is of importance to him.
Therefore emotional intelligence is a skill that can help us to build strong social skills and improve on our relationships, be it personal or workplace. With it, we are able to be proactive and not reactive to challenges of life, we get to think first before we act or speak. So while we interact with people of different backgrounds, emotional intelligence will come in handy on how we have to behave ourselves with each one at an individual level.