Morale Quotes - Page 3

• You have to make a joke every 10–15 minutes. It’s a way of keeping up morale.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Way, Minutes, Jokes

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• Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Majority Vote, Principles, Moral

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• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Business

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  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

  Thank You, Military, Marine

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• No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.

  Eric Hoffer

  Communication, World, Lines

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• 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

  Team, Player, Egypt

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• A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Believe, Discipline

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

  Julian Barnes

  Fall, Boys, Yield

  "Talking It Over". Book by Julian Barnes, books.google.ru. February 23, 2010.

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• 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

  Honesty, Doe, Magazines

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• Morale is boosted to high highs by accomplishment. In fact, it can be demonstrated that production is the basis of morale.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Accomplishment, Facts, Bases

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• 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

  Yesterday, People, Looks

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.

  Iwane Matsui

  Responsibility, Army, Discipline

  "Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity". Book by Masahiro Yamamoto, History, p. 232, 2000.

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• 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

  Machines, Pilots, Firsts

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• Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose heart, lose their morale. They will become such a shiftless, lazy, apathetic, lethargic people that you won't be able to get half of them to work. Many will not be motivated by anything.

  Shelton Smith

  Atheist, Heart, People

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• La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Morality, Eloquence

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• Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

  Albert Camus

  Football, Morality, Knows

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• Morale is faith in the man at the top.

  Albert Sidney Johnston

  Men, Advertising, He Man

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• I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Pages, Starting

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• I realized 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

  Running, Dad, Father

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• When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to accept negligible pay raises and cuts in health and pension benefits, company morale plummets. I hear it all the time from employees: This company, they say, is being run only for the benefit of the people at the top. So why should we put in extra effort, commit extra hours, take on extra responsibilities? We'll do the minimum, even cut corners. This is often the death knell of a company.

  Robert Reich

  Running, Retirement, Jobs

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• Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

  Jim Hightower

  Wages, Management, Increase

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• Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.

  David Rockefeller

  Successful, Chinese Revolution, Community

  "From a China Traveler". www.nytimes.com. August 10, 1973.

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• They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.

  Winston Churchill

  People, London, Would Be

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• The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when they are taking off, or when they are climbing, or when they are forming up. Don't think you can defend the bomber by circling around him. It's good for the bombers morale, and bad for tactics.

  Robin Olds

  Thinking, Climbing, Enemy

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