Motivational Quotes For Effective Leadership (Series 1)

Motivational Quotes for Effective Leadership

ATTITUDES


• EMBRACE POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Lazy people rarely prepare. Diligent people do,
but they sometimes overlook an area that can trip them up when they meet a challenge; they neglect their attitude. To success in any endeavor, you must do your homework to take care of the mental aspects of your game. You also must have a positive attitude about yourself. Then you set yourself up for success.

• HARDENED ATTITUDE

A hardened attitude is a dreaded disease. It causes a closed mind and a dark future. When the attitude is positive and conducive to growth, the mind expands and the progress begins.

• THE ATTITUDE WHAT IS IT?

The high school basketball team I played for was not having a good season, and one day the coach had one of those team meetings in which every player was quiet and listening. The coach continually stressed he relationship between the team’s attitude and the win-loss record. I can still hear his words, “Fellows, your abilities say win, but your attitudes say lose”.

• OUR ATTITUDES DETERMINES OUR APPROACH TO LIFE

It’s impossible for us to tailor-make our attitudes to fit our lives perfectly. But it’s possible to tailor-make our attitude to fit.

• OUR ATTITUDE DETERMINES OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH PEOPLE

People are frustrating at times. They show up at the wrong place at the wrong time, for it’s essential to build proper relationships with others in our crowded world.

• OFTEN OUR ATTITUDE IS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE

History’s greatest achievement have been made by men who excelled only slightly over the masses of others in other fields. This could be called the principle of the slight edge. Certainly attitude is important to our success in life. Yet success or failure in any undertakings is caused by mental attitude than by mental capacities.

• OUR ATTITUDE AT THE BEGINNING OF A TASK WILL AFFECT ITS OUTCOME MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE

One of the key principles I teach when leading evangelism conferences is the importance of our attitude when witnessing to others. Two people can share the same news with the same person and receive different results. Usually the difference is in the attitude of the person sharing.

• OUR ATTITUDE CAN GIVE US AN UNCOMMONLY POSITIVE PERSPECTIVE

Moody Bible Institute Pres. George Sweeting tells about a Scotsman who was an extremely hard worker and expected all the men under him to be the same. His men would tease him ‘Scotty, don’t you know that Rome wasn’t built in a day? “Yes”, he would answer, “I know that. But I wasn’t foreman on that job”.

• HELP PEOPLE CHANGE AN ATTITUDE

Most people are very close to becoming the person that God wants them to be. My greatest joy is in helping hundreds of people change an attitudes.

• A CHILD'S FORMATIVE YEARS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT FOR INSTALLING THE RIGHT ATTITUDES.

Child specialists generally agree that early development in a positive setting is a main reason for he child’s successes. Attitudes we accept as children are usually the attitudes we embrace as adults. It’s hard to get away from our early training.

• AN ATTITUDE GROWTH NEVER STOP

Our attitudes are formed by our experiences and how we chooses to react to them. Therefore, as long as we live, we are forming, changing or reinforcing attitudes. There is no such thing as an unalterable attitudes.

• MANY BUILDERS HELP CONSTRUCT OUR ATTITUDES AT A CERTAIN TIME AND PLACE

In building a home, certain specialists are needed to make the structures complete. Their time may be minimal and their contribution small, yet they are a part of the construction of that home. In the same way, certain people come into our lives at various times who help make or break our perspective.

• THE COSTLIEST MISTAKE IN CONSTRUCTING AN ATTITUDE

Many intelligent adults…are restrained in thoughts, actions and results. They never move further than the boundaries of their self-imposed limitations. Others can stop you temporarily but you are the only one can do it permanently.

• MAINTAIN THE RIGHT ATTITUDE WHEN THINGS GOING GETS TOUGH

Our natural reaction is to boil out of the right attitude to compensate our decisions. When we crash, it comes from a wrong reaction, not the turbulence.

• ATTITUDE DETERMINES FAILURE OR SUCCESS

Attitude is the determining factor of whether our failures make or break us. The persistence of a person who encounters failure is one sign of healthy attitude. Winners don’t quit. Failures become devastating and causes our attitude to crash when we quit. To accept failure as final is to be finally a failure.

• THE PRESENCE OF PROBLEMS

When our attitude crashes, we have two alternatives. We can either alter the difficulty or alter ourselves. What can be changed for the best, we must change. When that is impossible, we must adjust to the circumstances in a positive way.

• EMBRACE AN ATTITUDE OF SERVICE

We have been put on this earth not to be served, but to serve. Giving of yourself and your time to others shows that you care about them. Physician Sir Welfred T. Grenfell held that, “The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth”. People of integrity are givers, not takers.

• THE IMPORTANCE OF ATTITUDE AS A LEADER

When you are leading a group of people, your attitude is extremely important. Because attitudes are contagious, your team will recognize your attitude and adapt to the example you set. If you appear irritated about the challenges your team faces, then your team members will become irritated too.

• TAILOR YOUR ATTITUDE

Tailoring your attitude may take a lot of work. Start by surrounding yourself with positive pictures, saying and people. Read motivational books. Then try to achieve a goal every day. Your attitude will become more positive as you learn and sense that you are making progress.

• UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF THE ATTITUDE

I can’t choose circumstance, but I learned a long time ago that I can choose my attitude about my circumstance.

• WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE YOU CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIOR

once we begin to see change as being the key to a better future it’s easy to modify our behavior accordingly. Going the extra mile no longer seems out of question? In fact, we do so willingly, knowing it’s taking us closer to where we want to go.

• ATTITUDE DETERMINES HOW WELL YOU DO IT

You see, motivation determines what you do, ability determines what you’re capable of doing, and attitude determines how well you do it. In writing the Olympics, the late sports columnist Jim Murray commented that, ‘ in the history of the Games, the difference between gold medalists and silver medalists in all the timed events was less than 1/10 of a second. That’s not ability, ‘he said. That’s Attitude’.

• EVALUATE YOUR PRESENT ATTITUDE

This will take some time. If possible try to separate yourself from your attitudes. This goal is not to see the ‘bad you’ but a ‘bad attitude’ that keeps you from being more fulfilled person.

• MASTERS OR VICTIMS OF OUR ATTITUDES

We are either the masters or victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who are we today is the result of choices made yesterday. Tomorrow we will become what we choose today.

• ATTITUDE CHANGE TO MAKE A BETTER PERSON

No choice will determine the success of your attitude change more than desiring to change. Many people have climbed over insurmountable obstacles to make themselves better when they realized that change is possible.

• CONTINUALLY CHOOSE TO HAVE A RIGHT ATTITUDE

Once you make the choice to possess a good attitude, the work really begins. Now comes a life of continual deciding to grow and maintaining the right outlook.

• ATTITUDE IS IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING ELSE

Attitude is more important than appearance, talent, or skill. It’s more important than the past, the future, money, circumstances, failures or successes. It’s even more important than what other people think about you, or say about you or do to you. The awesome thing about attitude is that you’re always inn charge of it.

• ATTITUDE SETS THE RIGHT ATMOSPHERE OF RIGHT RESPONSES

Attitude makes all the difference in leading others. The attitude of a leader is important because it will influence the way followers think and feel. Great leader understand the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from followers.

• ATTITUDE DETERMINES HOW EMOTION IS HANDLED

Your attitude determines how you handle your emotions. Notice I didn’t say your attitude determines how you feel. There’s a big difference between how you feel and how you handle your feelings. Everyone has times when he or she feels bad. Your attitude can’t stop your feelings, but can keep your feelings from stopping you.

• ATTITUDE IS CONTAGIOUS

Leadership is influence. People catch an attitudes just like they catch our colds. Think about it. If your attitude is contagious and if you’ve lots of followers, they will catch your attitude. If you smile, you’ll get lots of smiles in return. If you frown, then that’s what you’ll get frowns and a lot of grumpy followers.

• PROBLEMS ARE A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE

Obstacles, setbacks, and failures are simply parts of life. You can’t avoid them. But doesn’t mean you have allow them to become problems. The best thing you can do is to meet them with a solution-oriented mind-set. It’s just a matter of attitude.

• REPEAT THE PROCESS

If at first you don’t succeed in solving the problem, keep at it. If you do solve the problem, then repeat the process with another problem. Remember,
your goal is to cultivate a solution-oriented attitude that you bring into play all the time.

• ENVIRONMENT – WHAT’S AROUND ME

Environment is the first influencer of our belief system. Therefore, the foundation of an attitude is laid in the environment to which we were born. Environment becomes even more significant when we realize that the beginning attitudes are the most difficult to change. Even the weather can ‘ice our wings’ and cause us to lose altitude in our attitude.

• MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND JOB-OUR SECURITY AND STATUS

New influences begin to affect our attitudes as we approach our middle twenties. It is during this time of our lives that most of us marry. That means another person influences our perspective. When I speak on attitudes, I always emphasize the need to surround ourselves with positive people.

• WRITE A STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

In order to have fun and direction in changing your attitude, you must establish a clearly stated goal. This goal should be as specific as possible, written out and signed, with a time frame attached to it.

• MATTER OF ATTITUDE

The key to how you treat people lies in how you think about them. It’s a matter of attitude. How you act reveals what you believe.

• BELIEVE GOD IS WORKING A MIRACLE IN YOUR LIFE

Place the changes you seek in attitude, thinking and behavior at the top of your prayer list. Ask God to help you do what is possible to bring about effective change. Then ask Him to do for you what you can’t do for yourself.

• PROBLEMS CAN BE FACED IN A NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE WAY

The way you think about a problem and the way you feel about a problem will help you decide what to do about a problem. Problems are all about attitude. You can face then in a negative or positive way.

• BAD ATTITUDE OF A LEADER CAN’T BE HIDE

No matter how will you think you can hide a bad attitude, others know all about it. It’s in the way you walk and the way you talk, and it shows on your face.

• ATTITUDE DETERMINES HOW WELL YOU DO IT

You see, motivations determines what you do, ability determines what your capable of doing, and attitude determines how well you do it. In writing about the Olympics, the late sport columnist Jim Murray commented that, “In the history of the Games, the difference between gold medalists and silver medalists in all the timed events was less than one-tenth of a second. That’s not ability, he said, That Attitude.

• EXPECTATIONS CHANGED ATTITUDE

When you change your expectations, you change your attitude. Positive expectations produce feelings of excitements, desire, convictions, confidence, and enthusiasm. Here is where a natural borne pessimist can re-program his or her basic outlook on life. What a difference it makes when you expect the best, not the worst? The possible not the impossible.

• LEADERS MUST PRAISE POSITIVE IDEAS

It’s important to never reward or give attention to moody people. Giving them an opportunity to publicly exhibit their negative attitudes gives them a sense of recognition. The best method of attack is to praise this person’s positive ideas and actions and ignore him when he’s sucking his thumb.

• IT’S AN ATTITUDE MY FRIEND

Paul had an Instruction’s Manual on ‘Attitude Flying’; the relationship between the aircraft’s attitude and it’s performance. We too, have been given a handbook to attitude living…the Bible. The result of a renewed mind or a changed attitude is to prove and fulfill God’s will. Again, we see that the attitude dictates performance.

• EMBRACE POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Tailoring your attitude may take a lot of work. Start by surrounding yourself with positive pictures, sayings, and people. Read motivational books. Then try to achieve a goal everyday. Your attitude will become positive a you learn and sense that you’re making progress.