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Here are some of our favourite quotes that embody a culture that embraces Emotional Intelligence:

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Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.
Please click on the link to visit our EQuotes page to find a variety of inspirational quotes from influential leaders like this one.

“You can buy people’s time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of muscular motions per hour. But you cannot buy enthusiasm…you cannot buy loyalty…you cannot buy the devotion of their hearts. This you must earn.”

Clarence Francis


“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”

Victor Frankl


“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

Colin Powell


“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. Good leadership involves responsibility to the welfare of the group, which means that some people will get angry at your actions and decisions. It’s inevitable, if you’re honorable. Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity: you’ll avoid the tough decisions, you’ll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted, and you’ll avoid offering differential rewards based on differential performance because some people might get upset. Ironically, by procrastinating on the difficult choices, by trying not to get anyone mad, and by treating everyone equally “nicely” regardless of their contribution, you’ll simply ensure that the only people you’ll wind up angering are the most creative and productive people in the organization.”

Colin Powell


“I have no doubt whatever that most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness…much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into the habit of using and moving only his little finger…We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not dream.”

William James


“People have to stop thinking of their feelings as irrelevant and messy and realize that they are in fact highly differentiated nuance patterns of reaction and noble sources of information. We will only know what to do by realizing what feels right to us; attention is our most precious resource. Feelings are the body’s version of their situation; everything that we want to know about our situation is revealed. The switch for business people comes when they realize what they thought was soft is hard and what they thought was hard is often arbitrary. In this sense feelings are guides to the big issues like where am I going?”

Shoshana Zuboff, Professor of Psychology Harvard Business School


 “We who were in the concentration camps remember the people who walked around the huts giving away their last piece of bread. Though they were small in number, they offer sufficient proof that anything can be taken away from a human being, but the last of human freedoms, the ability to choose one’s own attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

Victor Frankl


“In basketball – as in life – true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it’s no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you’re going to win or lose and instead focus your full attention on what’s happening right this moment.”

Phil Jackson, Former coach of the Chicago Bulls and L.A. Lakers


“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company…a church…a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”

Charles Swindoll


“You do not lead by hitting someone over the head – that’s assault, not leadership!”

Dwight D. Eisenhower


“I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.”

Peter Drucker


“Shula’s treatment of individuals is predictable. His focus is always on how they can be their best. His consistency is legendary…Shula behaves the same way in similar circumstances. It ‘s not the mood he’s in but people’s performance that dictates his response.”

Ken Blanchard


“I’ve had a lot of great moments in my life, I just wish I’d been there for more of them”

Anonymous


“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or how the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”

Franklin Roosevelt


“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing in the tempting moment.”

Dorothy Nevill, English writer, 1913


“If we could reach the secret heart and history of our “enemies,” we should find, in each one’s life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


“Courage is not the absence of fear, it’s positive action in the face of fear”

Anonymous


“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

Wayne Gretzky


“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, they make them.”

– George Bernard Shaw


I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.” 

Peter Drucker


“Being angry is easy.  But to be angry at the right person, to right degree, for the right reason, that is not easy”

Aristole