Cleanliness Quotes

• Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Order, Matter, Taste

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

  John Wesley

  God, Next, Appearance

  Sermons on Several Occasions Sermon 88 (1788). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Next in this proverb means 'immediately following,' as in serial order." The ODP refers to a passage in Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning (1605), reading, "Cleannesse of bodie was euer esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God."

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• Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision

  Suze Orman

  Clarity, Purity, States

  Suze Orman (2007). “Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny”, p.53, Spiegel & Grau

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• Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Gratitude

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.309, e-artnow

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• Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Responsibility, Roles

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• Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

  Joseph Addison

  Mind, May, Purity

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• Then how about we start with a shower," he said in the kind of deep voice that made her consider the value of cleanliness.

  J.R. Ward

  Voice, Kind, Made

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.222, Penguin

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• Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

  J. R. D. Tata

  Perfect, Quality, Hallmark

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• Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance.

  Narendra Modi

  School, Empowerment, India

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• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Success, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

  Steve Ross

  Business, Superficial Knowledge, Vision

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• What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, People, Degrees

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.411, Modern Library

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• My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness

  Narendra Modi

  Beautiful, Cities, Focus

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• A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Skills, Accomplishment, Brain

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• Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Giving, India

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• People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Mind, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Order, Support, Doe

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.78, Knopf

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• Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Clean, Wells

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.197, Oxford University Press

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• God loveth the clean.

  Francis Bacon

  God Love, Appearance, Clean

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• I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Yourself

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• A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Men, Two

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• Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Next

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• Devote 100 hours every year towards the cause of cleanliness.

  Narendra Modi

  Years, Causes, Hours

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• Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you're not really teaching them anything.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Teaching, Kids, Kitchen

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• Cleanliness and sanitation were closest to Gandhiji's heart. We will launch a 'Clean India' campaign and by Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Country, Heart

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