Order Proverbs

Sayings about Order

If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in character. If there is beauty in character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will. ~Chinese Proverbs

Old age is a hundred disorders. ~Welsh Proverbs

If you give orders and leave, the work won’t get done. ~Portuguese Proverbs

Not much is achieved where everyone gives the orders. ~ Portuguese Proverb

It is easier to give orders than to work. ~Lithuanian Proverbs

When a king is about to lose his power his orders burn more intensely than fire. ~Tibetan Proverbs

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. ~ Traditional Proverb

Let all things be done decently and in order. ~ Bible

When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket. ~Vietnamese Proverbs

Quotations about Order

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

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

Good order is the foundation of all good things. ~ Edmund Burke

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it. ~ Joseph Joubert

The friend of order has made half his way to virtue. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ~ A.A. Milne

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. ~ Louis de Bernieres

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only humans, and disorder is our worst enemy. ~ Hesiod

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. ~ Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order. ~ Hugh Blair

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

Order, thou eye of action. ~ Aaron Hill

Variety is the condition of harmony. ~ James Freeman Clarke

Creation is the production of order. ~ John Stuart Blackie

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one’s self; order is power. ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ~ Gustave Flaubert

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. ~ Aldo Leopold

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

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. ~ William J. Durant

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has no taste for order will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. ~ Joseph Joubert

Order is man’s greatest need, and his true well-being.~ Henri-Frederic Amiel