Word Finder - morale

definition

The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.

example

Morale is an important quality in soldiers. With good morale they'll charge into a hail of bullets; without it they won't even cross a street.

Morale was low, and many had lost faith in Gabriel.

Making your hosts feel inferior may worsen already low morale.

They also knew that mail from home improved morale.

Setting unrealistic expectations will only result in a lowering of morale.

Through the program, employees and management learn the tools they need to lower stress levels, improve communication and increase company morale.

The media does have an effect on civilian morale.

She raised the morale of the local troops and they attacked the English redoubts, forcing the English to lift the siege.

This may lead to frustration and feelings of low self-worth, and low morale.

In L'Evolutionnisme des idees forces (1890), La Psychologie des idees forces (1893), and La Morale des idees forces (1907), is elaborated his doctrine of idees forces, or of mind as efficient cause through the tendency of ideas to realize themselves in appropriate movement.

Used as incentive gifts they can also extend your company's brand and bolster morale.

Benefits include enhanced customer service, retention of skilled staff, improved morale and less absenteeism.

You must have the charisma to lift morale with a smile.

It may be just in bits and pieces, a squeeze of the railroad which will sap morale and destroy its potential.

The Romans believed it was good to boost the morale of their troops by leading from the front.

Employe fundraising fundraising is a great opportunity for team building, raising morale and strengthening relationships in the office place.

Ending the national claim fragmented the unity and undermined the morale of the nursery nurses to a limited extent.

Hotspur expects to bolster morale with a comic reminder of Hal's deficiencies.

The morale in this far reaching outpost of the empire was dismal.

Performance of staff, morale, and external relations tend not to carry price tags that can be purchased so easily.

He was also the author of Science et philosophie (1886), which contains a well-known letter to Renan on "La Science ideale et la science positive," of La Revolution chimique, Lavoisier (1890), of Science et morale (1897), and of numerous articles in La Grande Encyclopedie, which he helped to establish.

The cathedral must be saved, he said damage to the fabric would sap the morale of the country.

Never knowing if you were going to be the next target did a great deal to undermine morale in the RIC.

The trust has run weekend retreats for all staff, to build on knowledge and develop morale to achieving this transformational goal.

The loss of paper profits can create morale problems and headhunters can start poaching your people.

Being a part of an active community can help to boost a mother's morale during the difficult time of raising a small child.

Use these gift cards as incentive gifts for employees and you may find an increase in productivity and morale.

Join committees in which you can have a direct impact on the workplace, and make suggestions to your boss about improving company morale.

Keep a positive employee morale with a business that is structured to keep stress away.

He might be the player on the bench who cheers on the other players to victory and keeps up team morale.

Of course, sports gear is also ideal to wear on game day, when team morale is at its peak and you're among your fellow fan brethren, who take the game just as seriously and feel just as passionately as you do!

The morale and productivity of fellow employees is also often affected when a workplace injury occurs.

The workers involved in the telecommuting pilot project were pleased to save the expense of commuting to and from work one day per week, and productivity and morale increased.

The right corporate gift can boost morale in the office and effectively market your business to important clients.

Not only are their means for sterilization almost non-existent, the morale and caution for health is normally compromised under the already "rough" living conditions of prison life.

Yoga sessions in the corporate world can increase productivity as health, self-esteem and morale improves.

There's nothing like success stories and testimonials from those that have gone before to help boost your morale.

Remember that the goals are always to involve as many students as possible, and to promote school spirit and morale.

With a little imagination and brainstorming with your fellow cheerleaders, you are certain to build up a full arsenal of sideline cheers that will make your squad unique and help enhance school spirit, fan participation and team morale.

She helps to boost team morale and she keeps spectators alive and upbeat during the game.

According to their site, 70 percent of the profits from the purchase of uniforms and other items are given back to United States sailors through Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) distributions.

While some may argue that worrying about being stylish on the job is unprofessional or silly, feeling better about what you put on before your shift-even a subtle styling shift-can boost your morale.

All the printed editions, however, consist of four parts, the additional one being entitled Speculum Morale.

Pliny rightly praises Trajan as the lawgiver and the founder of discipline, and Vegetius classes Augustus, Trajan and Hadrian together as restorers of the morale of the army.

The Achaeans, or Hellenes, as they were later termed, were on this hypothesis one of the fair-haired tribes of upper Europe known to the ancients as Keltoi (Celts), who from time to time have pressed down over the Alps into the southern lands, successively as Achaeans, Gauls, Goths and Franks, and after the conquest of the indigenous small dark race in no long time died out under climatic conditions fatal to their physique and morale.

A volume of Essais de morale et de politique introduced him to the notice of Napoleon, who attached him to the staff of the council of state.

In 1783 he was crowned by the academy of Nancy for his Eloge de la poesie, and in 1788 by that of Metz for an Essai sur la regeneration physique et morale des Juifs.

Early in 1531 he lectured publicly on Galen and Hippocrates, while his more serious pursuits seem to have been chequered by acting in a morale comedic, then a very frequent university amusement.

As a celebration of contemporary creative innovation it provided a huge morale boost in the aftermath of Foot and Mouth.

The day's mishaps have hardly dented the band's morale.

When killing and fighting get them down, they know their morale ca n't droop.