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Orderliness is having a sense of where things belong and how they relate to each other, and keeping them organized accordingly. When there is a place for everything and everything in its place, then we are able to think and work efficiently. We are also more able to work collaboratively –to share tools and space with others.


To be orderly, we also must have a sense of priorities, of what is most important and what we must let go. We can only put our lives in order if our priorities are clear.


In this sense, orderliness is not so much an external habit as a quality of our mental life. It means that we seek to understand how things relate to each other--their similarities and differences, the cause and effect relationships that connect them, and how these relate to our own values and aspirations.

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

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Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny.

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There are uncountable hours lost each year in the workplace because of disorganization. But people mix up cleaning with organizing. Being clean is a visual thing, but being organized is being able to find things when you need them.

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We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity.

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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

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Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

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After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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Electricity is really just organized lightning.

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Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

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If you can organize your kitchen, you can organize your life.

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Organize your life around your dreams - and watch them come true.

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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

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Talmud
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What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

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Virtue Reflections Cards
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The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

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Thornton T. Munger
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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.

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Robert Southey
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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 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.

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Confucius
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