Top 100 Quotes About Morale
#1. Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.
George Carman
#2. Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.
Iwane Matsui
#3. "Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination."
George C. Marshall
#4. The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Paul Graham
#5. To regain our morale, we need both enlightenment (knowing what to do) and encouragement (feeling confident that we can do it).
Chaitanya Charan Das
#6. It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.
James Ira Thomas Jones
#7. It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.
Laurent Jalabert
#8. Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
Karl Lagerfeld
#9. Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.
Bud Wilkinson
#10. Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.
Anna Quindlen
#11. I am fascinated to hear of the impact that ESOPs have had on work-force morale in corporations of all sizes such as Sears Roebuck, Potomac Electric Power, Lowe's Companies and the Dow Chemical Company.
Robert S. Strauss
#12. even if we only gain a psychological advantage, that can mean the difference between victory and defeat. I'm reminded of the words of my father the king, who says that battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength." Syazarees
Xenophon
#13. This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word ... that is what has upheld the morale of our people, to know that in the end good will prevail.
Desmond Tutu
#14. Hundreds of social networks and websites such as Facebook and Twitter are trying to weaken people's morale and decrease their participation in the elections.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#15. But [Coca-Cola] was also genuinely welcomed by the servicemen in far-flung military bases: Coca-Cola reminded them of home and helped to maintain morale.
Tom Standage
#16. Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. You have depended on metal and power and they have sustained you as far as they could. You have ignored mind and morale and they have failed you.
Isaac Asimov
#17. You can tell a person's morale from their Twitter feed. I like that; it's so honest. And I like being able to follow people who I respect and admire, and the possibility of them seeing my comment about them.
Jessie Cave
#18. Modernizing the postal service was particularly important for the soldiers, who relied on letters, newspapers, and magazines from home to sustain morale.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#19. Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.
Curt Flood
#20. The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
Desmond Tutu
#21. We hadn't lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it's tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.
Barry Alvarez
#22. It is the strict adherence to daily routine that tends towards the maintenance of good morale and the preservation of sanity, he says out loud.
Margaret Atwood
#23. Expendable was not the word I was looking to hear to boost my morale, but whatever.
Rachel Caine
#24. Let us not forget that the best morale booster for ourselves is to help to lift the morale of others. When
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#25. A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.
Philip K. Dick
#26. Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.
Peter Drucker
#27. [On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.
Mildred Cable
#28. Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.
David Davis
#29. The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers.
Peter Heather
#30. I've heard one or two riders refer to the odd night out as 'morale training'. It's a good expression for it. It's got the word 'training' in it, so it's got to be a good idea.
Michael Hutchinson
#31. Funny people, the Germans. When you got them in a bunch they were all Nazis (they had to be), but when you got the little people by themselves and worked on them for a while they didn't have any morale underneath. Inside they seemed naked and defenceless.
Paul Brickhill
#32. As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.
Guillermo Del Toro
#33. I think morale is the hardest part, not comparing yourself to someone else. I think everyone compares themselves to someone more successful than they are. Everyone does it. You have to embrace your own rocky path.
Mary Harron
#35. Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the outcome at the expense of the people as well as the process.
Tony Dungy
#36. The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#37. Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#38. A sales group with high morale and strong team spirit is a powerful unit, and team mentality is the cornerstone of success for any sales organization.
John R. Treace
#39. Morale is boosted to high highs by accomplishment. In fact, it can be demonstrated that production is the basis of morale.
L. Ron Hubbard
#40. I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.
David Rudisha
#41. The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
Eleanor Roosevelt
#42. Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.
Jim Hightower
#43. But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible!
Timur Vermes
#44. Victims are also less likely to take initiative because they feel outcomes are not in their hands anyway. An organization filled with victims will generally have low morale, have more risk-averse behavior, and find it difficult to implement change.
John Izzo
#45. I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
Ed Koch
#46. If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.
Sun Tzu
#47. Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
Margaret Thatcher
#48. Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.
John Abizaid
#49. Recipe of SUCCESS needs tons of morale, flavor of attitude and hours of patience to cook.
Vikrmn
#50. While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system - upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#51. You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.
Shirley Manson
#52. Whatever view one takes of the outcome being affected by morale, it seems certain that the realm of illusion must be escaped before anything else.
Christopher Hitchens
#53. Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.
Benjamin Morrell
#54. The punch line is 'knock the morale of an employee and organizational productivity is punctured'.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#55. Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.
Sue Wicks
#56. Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.
Julian Baggini
#57. Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#58. Don't ever think that you're a single in total freedom,but think of combating the forces of lust.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#59. Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.
Robert Winston
#61. Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.
Ellen Gilchrist
#62. Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#63. The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.
Bill Russell
#64. The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
Ernest Hemingway,
#65. The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
Jack Adams
#66. Morale still seems reasonably high and, while the desertion rate has risen, it is still limited to those who can walk.
Woody Allen
#67. The victory at Trenton boosted morale among the troops, the Congress, and the people to a degree possibly unwarranted by winning back a town in New Jersey, what with it being a town in New Jersey.
Sarah Vowell
#68. An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#69. Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.
Myron Kaufmann
#70. Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope.
George Friedman
#71. When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.
Sun Tzu
#72. Even if everything is destroyed, keep your spirit high because this will put everything into its place again!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.
Paul J. Zak
#74. I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.
Bear Grylls
#75. By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
Karen Abbott
#76. Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and perennial egotism.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#77. Nothing hinders morale more than when team members with separate agendas are pulling against one another.
Andy Stanley
#78. The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.
Sue Townsend
#79. Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
Herman Kahn
#81. Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
Abraham Lincoln
#82. Its Seventh Commandment, italicized by the authors, stated: Battles are beyond everything else struggles of morale. Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#83. You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service.
Mike Thompson
#84. The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players.
Roger Milla
#86. Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.
Diego Della Valle
#87. It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
George C. Marshall
#88. Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.
Anthony Zinni
#89. I used to be so good at that kind of thing," Skulduggery said quietly.
"Well, my morale is certainly boosted," Valkyrie informed him.
"Really?"
"god no. That was terrible
Derek Landy
#90. It's definitely a tough blow to your morale to get fired.
Nina Jacobson
#91. Service-based leadership is a mindset: you work for your people. It is not complex; often it's the small acts of service that have the greatest impact on morale and camaraderie.
Courtney Lynch
#92. More than fans, they felt like a team of morale-boosters who would always be around to remind me of my own worth
David Archuleta
#94. The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.
John F. Kennedy
#95. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.
Mao Zedong
#97. We must be strong at home if we are going to be strong abroad. We understand that. So we want to be strong at home in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be strong intellectually, in our education, in our economy and, where necessary, militarily.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#98. These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
Major Taylor
#99. War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
Chiang Kai-shek
#100. It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.
Thomas Perez