Punctuality Quotes

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. - Oscar Wilde

 

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

Punctuality is the thief of time. - Oscar Wilde

 

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. (Life's Little Instruction Book) - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 

Punctuality is the soul of business. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

 

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation. - Zig Ziglar

 

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke

 

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. - Elbert Green Hubbard

 

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

 

Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.- French Proverb

 

Punctuality is the soul of business.- Thomas C. Haliburton

 

"Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past," Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, "in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late."- Nancy Mitford

 

I've been on a calendar, but never on time.- Marilyn Monroe

 

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.-William Shakespeare

 

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.- Oscar Wilde

 

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. - Charles Simmons

 

I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely. - E. V. Verrall

 

If you're there before it's over, you're on time. - James J. Walker

 

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

 

Better never than late. - George Bernard Shaw

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.-Don Marquis

 

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.-Louis XVIII

 

Punctuality is the soul of business.-Thomas Chandler Haliburton

 

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.-Evelyn Waugh

 

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.-George William Russell

 
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