Emotional Intelligence Quotes
Top 20 Emotional Intelligence Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-harper-lee.jpg)
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his
skin and walk around in it.
(Atticus Finch in the 1960 novel To Kill a
Mockingbird).
- Harper Lee (1926- ), American writer pictured right above.
No 2![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-pascal.jpg)
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
- Blaise Pascal (1623–62),
French scientist and philosopher, pictured right.
No 3
A soft answer turneth away wrath
(from the Bible)
- Book of Proverbs 15:1
No 4
Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone.
(John 8:7 in the Bible)
- Jesus (c6 BC-c33 AD), founder of
Christianity
No 5![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-goleman.jpg)
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.
- Daniel Goleman, pictured right, in Social Intelligence
(2006)
No 6![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-hardy.jpg)
It is not by what is in this life but by what appears, that you are judged,
(from the 1886 novel The Mayor of
Casterbridge)
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), pictured right, English writer.
No 7![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-dickens.jpg)
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence.
(Mr Jaggers in the 1860 novel Great
Expectations)
- Charles Dickens (1812-70),
pictured right, English writer.
No 8![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-austen.jpg)
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
(Darcy in the 1813 novel Pride and
Prejudice)
- Jane
Austen (1775-1817), pictured right, English writer.
No 9![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-covey.jpg)
We see the world not as it is but as we are.
- Stephen Covey, pictured right, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People (1989)
No 10![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-goleman.jpg)
The capacity for managing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing
emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships.
(definition of emotional intelligence)
- Daniel Goleman, pictured right above, Working with Emotional
Intelligence (1998)
No 11![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-confucius.jpg)
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese
philosopher, pictured right
Confucius also says:
Grieve not that men do not know you, grieve that you do not know men.
No 12![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-lao.jpg)
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu (c604-c531 BC), Chinese
philosopher, pictured right
No 13![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
The better part of valour is discretion,
(Falstaff in Henry IV Part
1).
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), pictured right, English playwright
No 14![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-goleman.jpg)
Academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil - or opportunity - life’s vicissitudes
bring.
- Daniel Goleman, pictured right, Emotional Intelligence (1996)
No 15![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-pascal.jpg)
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
- Blaise
Pascal (1623-62), French mathematician, physicist and philosopher, pictured right
No 16![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-aristotle.jpg)
Good action...cannot exist without a combination of intellect and character.
- Aristotle (384-322 BC),
Greek philosopher, pictured right
No 17![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotesberk.jpg)
To be is to be perceived.
- George
Berkeley (1685-1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher, pictured right
No 18![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-lao.jpg)
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
- Lao Tzu (c604-c531 BC), Chinese
philosopher, pictured right
No 19![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-voltaire.jpg)
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- Voltaire (1694-1778), French writer
and philosopher, pictured right
No 20![Emotional Intelligence Quotes Emotional Intelligence Quotes](images/quotes-teresa.jpg)
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa (1910-97), Albanian
nun, pictured right
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