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Quotes About Order

The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
~ Thucydides
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
~ Lydia Sigourney
Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
~ Robert Jordan
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
~ Laozi
Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.
~ Sun Tzu
Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
~ Leon Edel
How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.
~ Sandra Lee
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
~ P. T. Barnum
Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind
~ Isaac Pitman
The more messes you allow into your life, the more messes will become a normal (and acceptable) part of your life.
~ Robin Sharma
Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.
~ Franklin P. Adams
Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.
~ Vaclav Havel
Cleaniness is the cornerstone of discipline and the trademark of success
~ Wes Fesler
Give me full details, if you please, and above all begin at the beginning. I like order in all things.
~ Alexandre Dumas
People ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or, if they follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Quién soy yo?: la ley. ¿Acaso la ley tiene ojos para ver vuestra tristeza? ¿Es que la ley tiene oídos para oír vuestra dulce voz? ¿Es que la ley tiene memoria para comprender la delicadeza de vuestros sentimientos? No, señora, la ley ordena, y cuando ordena, hiere.
~ Alexandre Dumas
as a general rule, people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or, if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a contempt of law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Millions for nonsense but not one cent for entropy.
~ Alfred Bester
Law was always made by the few and in general for the purpose of preserving the existing order, or for the reestablishment of the old order and the punishment of the offenders against it.
~ Alfred Korzybski
Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we use the nervous ystem in a way which is against its survival structure, we must expect non-survival. Human history is short, but already we have astonishing records of extinction.
~ Alfred Korzybski
A well-governed state is as fruitful to all good purposes, as the seven-headed serpent is said to have been in evil; when one head is cut off, many rise up in the place of it. Good order being once established, makes good men...
~ Algernon Sidney