Order Quotes

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  In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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• Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

  Thomas Mann

  Simplicity, Steps, Mastery

  Thomas Mann (1969). “The Magic Mountain”, Vintage

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• Good order is the foundation of all things.

  Edmund Burke

  Foundation, Organize, All Things

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 351

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• To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Order is heaven's first law.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Math, Law

  1733 An Essay on Man, epistle to 4, l.49.

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• Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Patience, Haste

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• Order is the greatest grace.

  John Dryden

  Grace

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.417

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• Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Light, Self

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• Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Team, Animal, Machines

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.3, Univ of California Press

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• We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Giving, Dues

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• Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

  Eliphas Levi

  Awkward, Attention, Awkward Situations

  "The Great Secret, Or, Occultism Unveiled".

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• Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Block, Law, Justice

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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  We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

  Jesse Robredo

  Organization, Politician, Enough

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• there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

  Isabella Beeton

  Organization, Organized Life, Should

  1861 The Book of Household Management, ch.2.

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• Order is repetition of units.
  Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.

  M. C. Escher

  Chaos, Repetition, Rhythm

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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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• Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Needs, Great Person, Well Being

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• When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

  Will Durant

  Wisdom, Liberty, Politics

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• Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Kings, Law

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.109

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• Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Nwo, World Government, Historical

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “Perestroika and Soviet-American Relations”

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• If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Confused, Confusion, Soul

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.440, GENERAL PRESS

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• Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

  Henry Adams

  Dream, Nature, Men

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.550, BookRix

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• The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Meaningful, Military, Believe

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• Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.

  Alfred Brendel

  Art, Giving, Important

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