- An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.~ George Mikes
- If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.~ Chinese Proverb
- If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil.~ Author Unknown
- It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.~ Charles the Bold
- Good order is the foundation of all things.~ Edmund Burke
- Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.~ Napoleon Hill
- Order is a great person’s need and their true well being.~ Henri Frederic Amiel
- 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
- Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.~ Robert Southey
- Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.~ George S. Patton
- There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.~ Katherine Anne Porter
- The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.~ Henry Miller
- We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.~ Cecil Day Lewis
- We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.~ Miguel De Unamuno
- When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.~ William J. Durant
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