Emotional Intelligence Quotes

“Goleman identified the five components of emotional intelligence as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Emotional quotient or EQ, which is the other name for emotional intelligence, is the ability to recognize, discern, and manage emotions.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Emotions are a part of how we speak our truth to other people and vice versa.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom; mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“The second component of motivation is persistence.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“The first component of motivation is the activation of a process.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“You can only self-regulate if you first hold yourself accountable for the actions you take. As long as an action remains someone else’s fault, you do not have any control over what that person does. However,”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Emotional self-regulation, on the other hand, involves the regulation of emotions. As we saw earlier at the beginning of this book, we are all emotional creatures. However, we do not always have to be at the mercy of our emotions. It is possible to exercise control over your emotions so that you do not put yourself in jeopardy.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“There are two main types of self-regulation: behavioral and emotional self-regulation. Behavioral self-regulation involves regulating your own behavior and acting in a way that fulfills your best long-term interests. An example of behavioral self-regulation is what was mentioned above when you feel like quitting but show up anyway. Behavioral self-regulation enables you to feel one way but act differently because acting this way serves your best interests.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“When you have a severe lack of self-awareness, it follows that you will never be able to acknowledge the events in your life that you are responsible for.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“People who lack self-awareness have a higher likelihood of looking outside of themselves for reasons to justify their behavior.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Components of Emotional Intelligence Personal Competencies Social Competencies Self-Awareness Knowing yourself Self-Regulation Managing your emotions Motivation Motivating yourself Empathy Managing other people’s emotions 2. Social Skills Managing relationships”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“The results from this study showed that a particular type of receptor gene referred to as CHRNA4 (of the cholinergic system) can influence how one turns out emotionally depending on the type of nurturing that this person receives.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“studies that have shown that how a person reacts to their environment is a result of some form of genetic conditioning.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“with a wheel of emotions (known as Plutchik’s wheel of emotions) which shows that there are eight primary emotions that all other emotions come from. In this wheel, contrasting emotions are mapped against each other.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Aristotle believed that emotions were an important component of moral excellence. William James, an American philosopher and psychologist, had a different view on emotion. He argued that emotions were the result of the human body undergoing various physiological changes related to the external environment.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Mindful awareness is a term that is used to refer to the heightened consciousness that comes with being in touch with your thoughts, emotions, sensations, and experiences during every waking moment of your life.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Remember that the ability to communicate powerfully without needing to raise your voice is a measure of emotional intelligence.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Remember that the ability to communicate powerfully without needing to raise your voice is a measure of emotional intelligence. It follows, therefore, that a person who is unable to talk without shouting is extremely low on emotional intelligence. Dealing With a Partner Who Has Low Emotional Intelligence”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“A wise person once said that anybody who wishes to change the world must first go home and love their family. It does not get more profound than that.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“While it is a nice thing to be friendly to the people you come across, it is not your obligation to be friends with everyone.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“It is critical that you never allow any person to take your hope away from you. Hope is what you’d be left with if all your material and earthly possessions were to be taken away. Hope is what drives you to rebuild when the rug is pulled out from under your feet. Protect your hope at all costs. Do not allow anybody to get anywhere near your hope.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“The main motivator for energy vampires is their own emotional immaturity.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Winston Churchill defined tact as the ability to tell someone to go to hell while making them look forward to the trip.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“knows”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“The way you say the things you say is critical.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“The idea of active listening is to stimulate the other party to arrive at a solution of their own making.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Tip #1: Listen more than you talk”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Cognitive empathy is essentially the practice of seeing things from other people’s perspectives. Instead of simply processing the information we have from our own perspective, cognitive empathy calls for us to look at that information as if we were seeing it through someone else’s eyes.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.

“Ninety percent of the time, our actions and choices determine what happens to us.”
― Brandon Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why it Can Matter More Than IQ.