Quotes About Morale

On moral and international legal grounds it would be difficult to differentiate these discussions about annihilating shipwrecked survivors from those mentioned earlier between Churchill, his advisers and the Air Staff on area-bombing to kill, de-house and break the morale of the German working-class population – except perhaps that the British offensive was likely to affect women and children more directly, and was in the event carried out.

Raeder and Dönitz had objected on the practical grounds that such an order would undermine U-boat morale: officers and men would react against shooting defenceless people in the water and would assume that the enemy would mete out the same treatment to them in reprisal if the positions were reversed.

I feel really good at Everton. My team-mates are helping me with my confidence on the field, and that is vital. And being part of the Brazil national team has been really important for my morale and a positive thing for my confidence.

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.

The millennial generation and a growing number of employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. If a nonprofit could make that easy for me, they are doing me a favor. It's not just a one-way value exchange; it is an internal morale building opportunity.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

Diagnosticians of society should play their mission coldly and clinically. They should not be compelled to minister to morale. That should be left to coaches, therapists, clerics, or the like. If a commentator perceives a situation to be hopeless, he should say so.

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

The long view is good for morale. If it is an affront to the ego, it is also an antidote to vanity, ambition, and greed. Our ultimate insignificance makes the case for living well in the present, for no other purpose survives. It also suggests the value of viewing oneself as part of a whole.

By their own actions, not their words, do leaders establish the morale, integrity and sense of justice of their subordinate commanders. They cannot say one thing and do another.

Foulk and friends suggest the toxic effect of rudeness - some actually call it a neurotoxin - lasts an entire week. It can spread like wildfire around a contained office, leading to general hostility, lower morale, poorer performance, and worse coffee. ... In fact, it's been shown that even when the rude behavior is mild at best, it impairs a person's basic ability to think. F You Very Much pages 23-24

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

Modernizing the postal service was particularly important for the soldiers, who relied on letters, newspapers, and magazines from home to sustain morale.

So far they had not done well. They had attempted to eat some of them, bury others and throw the rest of them away. Arthur had finally encouraged one of them to lay a couple of stones on the board he had scratched out, which was not even as far as he'd managed to get the day before. Along with the rapid deterioration in the morale of these creatures, there seemed to be a corresponding deterioration in their actual intelligence

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.

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.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.

The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.

Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude.

But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible!

Morale, my boy, is what counts. Man-power and tonnage and fire-power are important, of course, but morale has won every war in history. And our morale right now is higher than a cat's back—higher than any time since John Paul Jones—and getting higher by the day.