“ If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. ”
- Richard Cecil- Copy
- 910
“ He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely. ”
- E. V. Verrall- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time… ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.5K
“ As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you. ”
- Grenville Kleiser- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own. ”
- Gerald Barzan- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time. ”
- Lord Nelson- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me. ”
- Lord Nelson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
- 208
“ The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. ”
- Franklin P. Jones- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. ”
- Nathaniel Emmons- Copy
- 252
“ Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 3.9K
“ One mustn't allow acting to be like being a stockbroker — you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement. ”
- Sir John Gielgud- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 584
“ Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality. ”
- Richard Cecil- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
- 2.8K
“ We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 3.2K
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