Morale Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (M) Quotes

He never ran from personal pain, but he rushed to help you with yours, ... He was rabbi, priest, chaplain and mullah when he was not morale officer-in-chief.

- Bernard Shaw

(on The Green Berets (1968)) When I saw what our boys are going through - hell - and how the morale was holding up, and the job they were doing, I just knew they had to make this picture.

- John Wayne

It was a good morale boost and I was happy to see that. It brought the focus back to our main goal, which is to repeat as the state champion.

- Ken Watanabe

It was a big morale booster.

- Bill Simmons

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

It was important for our morale and important for the morale of the team for some of the Red Alert guys to be productive,

- Eric Young

That`s where Wales coach Mike Ruddock should have some cause for concern in relation to morale within his own camp.

- Tony Ward

We were really looking at specific issues of security that affect our troops. While we were in agreement in terms of things that needed to be improved there, we all saw gaps and areas that needed greater protection. The morale was very good under the circumstances, but we all felt we could be doing more to protect the troops.

- Stephen Lynch

You have a car people are excited about. That makes your morale go up.

- John Carson

What we`re trying to figure out is how Katrina has affected the shuttle program, ... If you talk to the folks at Michoud, they`re ready to get busy taking care of any tank damage that was done and they want to be back in production in a few weeks. ... Their morale and esprit de corps down there just has to be seen to believed.

- Mike Griffin

We needed a break, we did, ... The offense, the morale was low. But things went our way and we took the momentum and ran with it.

- Rob Johnson

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

That definitely hurt them. Phegley`s been a starter since his freshman year and an injury like that has to hurt the morale of a team,

- Kevin Wright

To me the biggest obstacle the drivers face, in my opinion -- especially assuming they stay where they are through the end of 2006, is keeping the morale of their team high, and getting those guys on their teams working as hard today as they did a week before the announcement,

- Stanton Barrett

That`s a lot of the job of the driver and the car owner, working to keep morale high. If those drivers and those car owners do their jobs in that respect the way they should, then they won`t have problems. If everything changes to `me, me, me,` whether it is the driver or the car owner, then it will be a long, long year.

- Stanton Barrett

If you ask me I think the people back home need their morale boosted.

- John Randall

It boosts everybody`s morale. Everybody feels like now we know we can do it. Guys have been preaching all along how good we are and the kind of team we`re capable of being, and it showed today.

- Scott White

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people`s morale.

- Al Hershey

Bush`s war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

- Alex Munter

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can`t find in an army without morale.

- Alfred Edward Housman

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.

- Alice Stone Blackwell

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.

- Andres Araya

Morale among provincial police officers is not high,

- Andy Gomarsall

He didn`t have to do what he did. He is just an all-American guy. My number one reason for nominating him is that he has a family and had been a Marine ? he didn`t have to re-enlist again, but he did. For me, it`s about him bringing back the morale of the troops. He`s a fair individual, and that`s all you can ask for. To me, that`s what makes America great.

- Angi Fangman

If you see a guy like that come back from those injuries and then just get injured, it was tough. I feel like we`ve kind of snapped out of it and we`re moving on. We`ve got good morale now.

- Annie Wimbish

(Britain`s team, though, is undaunted.) Morale is high, ... Everyone is keen to start racing.

- Anthony Speier

We needed this for morale. We have the talent, the desire and the ambition to win, we just hadn`t. I have been trying to teach them to believe that they can win.

- Anthony Wolf

I was shocked. But I don`t think morale will suffer. The lads always stick together. I don`t think there will be a problem with the manager and, even if there was, the players are striving for the same goal ­ to bring the World Cup home. I don`t think it will have a negative effect. It will have a positive one.

- Ashley Bentley

Whoever says artists can`t deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing out on the potential the artistic mind has to boost company morale and increase productivity. Most artists would just as soon quit once they become conscious of their exploitation and that is a sign of strength not weakness.

- Martin Dansky