Quotes about Punctuality

“Better never than late.”

“Punctuality is the soul of business.”

“Punctuality is the politeness of kings.”

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

“I have been on a calendar, but never on time.”

“If you're there before it's over, you're on time.”

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

“I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.”

“I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.”

“The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.”

“Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”

“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.”

“Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.”

“I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.”

“We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?”

“I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.”

“He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”

“Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.”

“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.”

“I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”

“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.”

“Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.”

“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.”

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.”

“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.”

“Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.”