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Order Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
- Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.
- A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow…
- A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten…
- It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state…
- In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;…
- If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and…
- The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go…
- If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to…
- One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it…
- Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.
- Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to…
- And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I…
- And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you…
- One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to…
- There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things.....…
- There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in…
- It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,…
- For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters…
- It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than…
- The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new…
- There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of…
More Order Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila