Low Morale Quotes

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

If life is a movie most people would consider themselves the star of their own feature. Guys might imagine they're living some action adventure epic. Chicks maybe are in a rose-colored fantasy romance. And homosexuals are living la vida loca in a fabulous musical. Still others may take the indie approach and think of themselves as an anti-hero in a coming of age flick. Or a retro badass in an exploitation B movie. Or the cable man in a very steamy adult picture. Some people's lives are experimental student art films that don't make any sense. Some are screwball comedies. Others resemble a documentary, all serious and educational. A few lives achieve blockbuster status and are hailed as a tribute to the human spirit. Some gain a small following and enjoy cult status. And some never got off the ground due to insufficient funding. I don't know what my life is but I do know that I'm constantly squabbling with the director over creative control, throwing prima donna tantrums and pouting in my personal trailor when things don't go my way.

Much of our lives is spent on marketing. Make-up, exercise, dieting, clothes, hair, money, charm, attitude, the strut, the pose, the Blue Steel look. We're like walking billboards advertising ourselves. A sneak peek of upcoming attractions. Meanwhile our actual production is in disarray--we're over budget, doing poorly at private test screenings and focus groups, creatively stagnant, morale low. So we're endlessly tinkering, touching u ~ Tatsuya Ishida

I have seen the consequences of attempting to shortcut this natural process of growth often in the business world, where executives attempt to "buy" a new culture of improved productivity, quality, morale, and customer service with strong speeches, smile training, and external interventions, or through mergers, acquisitions, and friendly or unfriendly takeovers. But they ignore the low-trust climate produced by such manipulations. When these methods don't work, they look for other Personality Ethic techniques that will - all the time ignoring and violating the natural principles and processes on which a high-trust culture is based. ~ Stephen R. Covey

More than ever, we have big houses and broken homes, high incomes and low morale, secured rights and diminished civility. We excel at making a living but often fail at making a life. We celebrate our prosperity but yearn for a purpose. We cherish our freedoms but long for connection. In an age of plenty, we feel spiritual hunger. ~ Craig Gross

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

Flogging will continue until morale improves. ~ Julie Klassen

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

Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained. ~ Robert Warshow

Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life. ~ Myron Kaufmann

Expendable was not the word I was looking to hear to boost my morale, but whatever. ~ Rachel Caine

Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed. ~ Dhirubhai Ambani

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here. ~ David Davis

Nothing sapped morale like the fear of being attacked from behind. ~ Conn Iggulden

My morale has never been higher than since I stopped asking for grants to keep my lab going. ~ Robert Pollack

Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success. ~ Bud Wilkinson

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit. ~ Anthony Zinni

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general. ~ William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

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

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

Where truth is high ignorance is low.
Where certainty is high speculation is low.
Where pleasure is high pain is low.
Where joy is high grief is low.
Where love is high fear is low.
Where modesty is high ego is low.
Where tolerance is high injustice is low.
Where mercy is high vengeance is low.
Where integrity is high distrust is low.
Where justice is high crime is low.
Where equality is high abuse is low.
Where freedom is high slavery is low.
Where wealth is high poverty is low.
Where knowledge is high illiteracy is low.
Where wisdom is high imprudence is low.
Where harmony is high anarchy is low.
Where peace is high turmoil is low.
Where order is high chaos is low.
Where faith is high doubt is low.
Where light is high darkness is low.
Where good is high evil is low.
Where strength is high weakness is low.

Where pride is high wisdom is low.
Where sorrow is high bliss is low.
Where error is high truth is low.
Where despair is high confidence is low.
Where silence is high speech is low.
Where tyranny is high liberty is low.
Where shame is high honor is low.
Where guilt is high innocence is low.
Where illusion is high reality is low.
Where bitterness is high happiness is low.
Where want is high needs is low.
Where pain is high pleasure is low.
Where fear is high love is low.
Where trouble is high com ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. ~ Jalal Talabani

Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success. ~ Bud Wilkinson

Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander. ~ Iwane Matsui

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low ~ Bat For Lashes

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

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

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

The punch line is 'knock the morale of an employee and organizational productivity is punctured'. ~ Henrietta Newton Martin

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

A bright smile has the strongest electrifying power to lift up the sagging morale and light up a depressed face effortlessly and immediately. ~ Anuj

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

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

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. ~ Ed Koch

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

I wanted to do something for the minority Muslims living in the West, especially in the UK, to bring up their morale a bit. They need to be proud of their religion ~ Sami Yusuf

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

Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories. Low sex. Low speed - anorexic society. ~ Jean Baudrillard

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

You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them. ~ Carisa Bianchi

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

War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood. ~ Hideo Kojima

The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements ... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad. ~ Vasily Chuikov

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

In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost ... the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them (did not) weaken the morale of the populace. ~ Albert Speer

Whenever you feel low, think of someone who is inspired by you. The low will turn to high. ~ Santosh Avvannavar

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

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

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

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. ~ George C. Marshall

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

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film. ~ James Mangold

People who have low self-esteem might not even know they have low self-esteem. ~ Yong Kang Chan

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

I would have said sacrificing one of his own kind was a new low for Jag, but honestly? Jag was a bottomless pit of low. ~ Red Tash

By Odin's Hairy Arse! ~ Robert Low

I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low. ~ Pam Dawber

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

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. ~ George Soros

One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.' ~ Gerald Chertavian

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

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created. ~ Michael Gove

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse. ~ Gijs De Vries

I was feeling low. Low is the depressive's euphemism for despair. ~ Sally Brampton

Nothing last forever, only the joy and happiness that turns into memories, turns eternal.(c) ~ Jennie Low

Manage me, I'm a mess
Turn a page, I'm a book
Half unread ~ All Time Low

Soldiers are required to close with the enemy, possibly in

the midst of innocent bystanders, and fight; and to continue operating in the face of mortal danger. This is a group activity, at all scales of effort and intensities. Soldiers are part of a team, and the effectiveness of that team depends on each individual playing his or her part to the full. Success depends above all else on good morale, which is the spirit that enables soldiers to triumph over adversity: morale linked to, and reinforced by, discipline. ~ Richard Dannatt

Nothing hinders morale more than when team members with separate agendas are pulling against one another. ~ Andy Stanley

He would struggle with finding any value in himself and would despair at how he perceived the rest of humanity to be acting. ~ Rob Jovanovic

As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of the machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare, which is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary pitch.
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The problem, that is to say, is educational. It is a problem of continuously molding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it. The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way. ~ George Orwell

We were still on the whale road, in the wind that keened and thrummed the ropes. ~ Robert Low

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one. ~ Douglas Coupland

It would take a great deal to crush me ~ Charlotte Bronte

We continue to receive reports that the morale of some elements is being damaged, .. They are being affected by the impunity with which NATO aircraft can operate over Kosovo and Serbia, the accuracy and the growing knowledge.. of deployed locations. In summary, NATO has eroded the capability of Milosevic's war machine and it is being further reduced as each day goes by. ~ John Day

When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours. ~ Ilona Andrews

Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength. ~ Xenophon

The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers. ~ Peter Heather

The last of our enemies is laid low. ~ Clement Attlee

A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing. ~ Dick Motta

I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested on one person's shoulders. Extraordinary people carried that country through its darkest hours; truly inspirational. I suppose that's my theme. Whether it's a biography or a movie; whether it's fictional or true, I'm inspired by people doing great things. ~ Larry Ellison

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.' ~ Maya Angelou

Chronic indecision is not only inefficient and counterproductive, but it is deeply corrosive to morale. ~ Robert Iger

Why do we always ponder on what changes another person had undergone, yet never looking at the mirror to see our changes? ~ Low Kay Hwa

Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed. ~ Abraham Low

So many comics have such low self-esteem. ~ Debra Wilson

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves. ~ David Low

I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I do it so I don't have to be let down. And yet again I am lowballed by the brokenness of the American cultural machine. ~ Vinnie Tesla

I have a dog that loves to fight. It's a border collie, and they fight low to the ground. Other dogs are terrified of my dog, because he gets low and goes for the balls. ~ Jeremy Hotz

The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done. ~ Tamala Jones

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists. ~ John Cameron

CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television. ~ Mike Rogers

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities ~ Erik Weihenmayer

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries. ~ Toshihiko Fukui

The bulk of suffering does not stem from 'dreadful' experiences but rather from frightening beliefs. ~ Abraham Low

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand. ~ Ty Cobb

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work. ~ Mos Def

It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low. ~ Patricia Schroeder

Had she allowed the flame to burn so low it was now in danger of complete extinction? ~ Paul Russell

the good society would have a low rate of inheritance of social status and correspondingly low variations in income and wealth. ~ Gregory Clark

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on. ~ Maxwell Maltz