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EQ is often cited as the difference between winners and losers. Use these quotes to up your game.

As far as I know, my MBA program didn’t teach any classes in emotional intelligence. While I got a solid education, I can’t help but think that I might have been served better by taking a course or two in EQ. After all, study after study has shown that emotional intelligence is the different between a successful CEO and an also-ran.

Here are some of the best quotes to inspire you to become a more emotionally intelligent leader:

1. The only way to change someone’s mind is to connect with them from the heart.
   -Rasheed Ogunlaru
2. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. -Jack Welch
3. In my 35 years in business, I have always trusted my emotions. I have always believed that by touching emotion you get the best people to work with you, the best clients to inspire you, the best partners and most devoted customers.
   -Kevin Roberts
4. When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. -Dale Carnegie
5. When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves. -Jess C. Scott
6. No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
   -Theodore Roosevelt
7. Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. -Norman Vincent Peale
8. When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air. -Stephen R. Covey
9. Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. -Kahlil Gibran
10.  Remember that failure is an event, not a person. -Zig Ziglar
11. Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and place. -Oli Anderson
12. Emotional intelligent people use self-awareness to their advantage to assess a situation, get perspective, listen without judgment, process, and hold back from reacting head on. At times, it means the decision to sit on your decision. By thinking over your situation rationally, without drama, you’ll eventually arrive at other, more sane conclusions. –Marcel Schwantes
13. It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14. People with high EQs master their emotions because they understand them, and they use an extensive vocabulary of feelings to do so. –Travis Bradberry
15. The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. -John Hancock
16. Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. -Epictetus
17. Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.  -Barry Neil Kaufman
18. Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. -Joshua L. Liebman
19. 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 a life around. -Leo Buscaglia
20. Emotions can get in the way or get you on the way. -Mavis Mazhura
21. Experience is not what happens to you–it’s how you interpret what happens to you. -Aldous Huxley
22. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. -Bill Gates
23. Don’t let the baggage from your past–heavy with fear, guilt, and anger–slow you down.  -Maddy Malhotra
24. Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. -Charles J. Sykes
25. It isn’t stress that makes us fall–it’s how we respond to stressful events.
    -Wayde Goodall
26. Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. -Benjamin Franklin
27. Pausing helps you refrain from making a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion. –Justin Bariso
28. No doubt emotional intelligence is more rare than book smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important in the making of a leader. You just can’t ignore it. -Jack Welch
29. Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand … prejudice, fear, and ignorance walk hand in hand. -Peart
30. Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. -Charlotte Brontë
31. The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions. -Donald Calne
32. Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions–so find out how to light their fires. -Jeff Dewar
33. If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. -Daniel Goleman
34. Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.  -Janis Joplin
35. Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.
    -Anthony de Mello
36. The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
    -Carl R. Rogers
37. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. -Socrates
38. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others? -C.H. Hamel
39. We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. -Eric Micha’el Leventhal
40. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -Ernest Hemingway
41. Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. -C.G. Jung

What’s your favorite quote about emotional intelligence that needs to be added to this list? What inspires you to develop your EQ further on an ongoing basis?