13 Best Emotional Intelligence Quotes That’ll Make You A Better Person From Today
These quotes help you become better with people and manage your emotions well.
A trainer walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she did so, she raised a glass of water. She asked,
“How heavy is this glass of water?”
After getting different types of answers, she replied. “The weight of it doesn’t matter. What matters is how long I’m holding it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s light. If I keep it for an hour, I’ll have arm pain. If I do it for a day, my arm will become numb.
The weight of the glass doesn’t change. But its impact becomes more profound on me the longer I hold it.”
Our stress and worries are like that glass of water. The longer we keep them, the more problems they create.
It’s essential that we put down that glass of stress. Building your emotional intelligence will help you do that and more.
13 Emotional Intelligence Quotes To Transform Yourself & Your Behavior
Transform yourself with these quotes
“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.” — Marshall B. Rosenberg.
How often have you seen someone hurt their close ones with their anger? Are you guilty of that too? Anger is the obvious emotion that can cause damage. But so can happiness. Have you ever overpromised when you are happy and later regretted it? Emotions can make you act in unnatural ways if you aren’t careful.
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.” — Epictetus.
Similarly, if you allow someone or a situation to regularly anger you, you'd essentially become their puppet.
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else: you are the one who gets burned.” — Buddha.
Holding onto anger hurts you the most. It burns you from the inside and makes you bitter. The sooner you can let go, the more favor you’ll be doing for yourself.
“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.” — Daniel Goleman.
Panic strikes before you can think. Happiness comes by just seeing a loved one. Once you understand that, you must learn to delay your reactions.
“My message for everyone is the same: that if we can learn to identify, express, and harness our feelings, even the most challenging ones, we can use those emotions to help us create positive, satisfying lives.” — Marc Brackett.
Understanding your emotions is key to success. You can identify what makes you sad, happy, ecstatic, or energetic. That’d help you recreate your desired emotions when you need them. For example, upbeat music can make you happy & hopeful.
“It is a choice. No matter how frustrating or boring or constraining or painful or oppressive our experience, we can always choose how we respond.” — Edith Eger.
Nick Santonastasso is a bodybuilder, model, and entrepreneur. The guy with contagious energy speaks at various seminars. He’s also the guy born with the Hanhart syndrome, a rare condition that prevented his limbs from fully growing. In Nick’s words, “The only limits you have are the ones you put on yourself.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle.
How you react to a situation depends on you. You can take a negative and become upset about it. Or you can take that negative as an opportunity to create.
Change you interact with others with these emotional intelligence quotes
“Emotional intelligence is when you finally realize it’s not all about you.” — Peter Stark.
Emotional intelligence helps you deal with your emotions. And eventually, you’ll realize that you need to stop living inside your head. Enjoy life and its surroundings, help other people and make the most of the world
“Men who do not turn to face their own pain are too often prone to inflict it on others.” — Terrence Real.
If you don’t fix your inner emotions, you’d end up affecting others. There’s a flow of generational pain that shows how an abused child often becomes an abusive father.
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.” — Dale Carnegie.
Like you, all others are creatures of emotion. The way you can make mistakes, they can too. Be empathetic, give them chance to explain themselves, and try to understand them.
“The only way to change someone’s mind is to connect with them from the heart.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru.
Once you understand what a person desires, you can connect with them on a deeper level. You can give them what they want and help them towards a positive change.
“Leadership is all about emotional Intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.” — Rajeev Suri.
To lead people, you’d need to understand their emotions. Without that, you’d not be able to connect on a deeper level and will have an ineffective relationship.
“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.” — Eckhart Tolle.
Lastly, as anger can destroy you, it can destroy others as well. When you see someone’s anger, try to understand the pain beneath that anger. That’s the beauty of emotional intelligence. It’s not only about kindness for self but also patience with others.
Final thoughts
These emotional intelligence quotes can help you in your journey to becoming a better person. Read these 5 books to further that journey.
Remember, the world would be a better place if we all focused on emotional intelligence.
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- Story credit: Daksha Malik and https://www.emotionalintelligenceatwork.com/resources/glass-water/
- Quotes credit: https://kidadl.com/quotes/best-emotional-intelligence-quotes-to-make-you-think
