Order Quotes


Order and simplification are the first steps toward the master of a subject. The actual enemy is the unknown. Thomas Mann Order 130
When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty. Will Durant Order 104
It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. Henry David Thoreau Order 98
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. George Mikes Order 90
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method and discipline. Michel de Montaigne Order 85
Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction. Edward Bulwer-Lytton Order 83
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. Alfred North Whitehead Order 81
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. Denis Diderot Order 75
When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. Will Durant Order 75
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. Jane Jacobs Order 72
Good order is the foundation of all great things. Edmund Burke Order 68
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry. Napoleon Bonaparte Order 67
Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it. Henry David Thoreau Order 60
Trying to understand women is a tall order period. Rick Schroder Order 58
Good order is the foundation of all good things. Edmund Burke Order 57
The less of routine, the more of life. Amos Bronson Alcott Order 55
There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. John Steinbeck Order 48
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things. Robert Southey Order 46
Order is power. Henri Frederic Amiel Order 44
Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails. Ian Gilmour Order 43
Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose. Henry Ward Beecher Order 41
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. Willem de Kooning Order 40
Method will teach you to win time. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Order 36
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. Arthur Helps Order 28
In order to do something you must be something. James Stockdale Order 25

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