Top 78 Quotes About Punctuality
#2. Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.
Marvin J. Ashton
#4. It is no use getting upset about delays in India; they come with unfailing punctuality.
Ruskin Bond
#5. Though I feel I should warn you that you that you could be here for a while. My friends aren't really known for their punctuality.
Amie Kaufman
#7. In the ordinary business of life punctuality is ... necessary.
Bertrand Russell
#8. I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely
E. V. Lucas
#9. Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.
Marvin J. Ashton
#11. Punctuality was not Susan's strength. She always intended to be on time, but she seemed to have some kind of chronometric dyslexia, which thwarted her intent, nearly always.
Robert B. Parker
#12. I recall a friend telling me that for all the years his mother worked, every clock in her home was set 30 minutes ahead. She was never late. And she was beloved by all. Punctuality matters. Shows respect for others. And excellence within yourself. Be great today. Please.
Robin Sharma
#13. Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination ...
Sterling W. Sill
#14. The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.
Gelsey Kirkland
#15. Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it ... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.
George Orwell
#17. 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
#18. I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
#20. If you have been told that you are late and unreliable more than once, then not only do you lack punctuality, but you also lack decency and seriousness, which is certainly very annoying.
Auliq Ice
#21. Punctuality comes high on my list of unforgivable sins.
Dorothy Cannell
#22. Sophronia was minding her own business and running late to luncheon, as was her custom. She'd let to learn the advantage of punctuality. As she told Sister Mattie the third time she was late to household potions and poisons, nothing interesting happened until after an event commenced.
Gail Carriger
#23. punctuality is for the unemployed and the unimportant: flunkies wait, powerful men are waited for.
Ranjeev C Dubey
#24. Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.
Sterling W. Sill
#25. As for consulting a dentist regularly, my punctuality practically amounted to a fetish. Every twelve years I would drop whatever I was doing and allow wild Caucasian ponies to drag me to a reputable orthodontist.
S.J Perelman
#27. 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
#28. Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis
#29. Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well ... it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life.
Anupam Kher
#30. Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.
Boyd K. Packer
#31. Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.
Bertrand Russell
#33. Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack
even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.
Michelle Sagara
#34. The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
Lin Yutang
#35. People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
#36. 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
#37. School can become a temple of learning only when the student, the guardian, and the society, in harmony, endeavor to make it a place of pursuit for education, a sadhana; where the spring of punctuality, sanctity and thirst for knowledge flows.
Narendra Modi
#38. I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.
Nicole Kidman
#40. I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
Peter Ustinov
#41. I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.
Thomas Gainsborough
#43. Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
John Frederick Boyes
#44. Time to say thank you and farewell! trills Effie at my elbow. It's one of those moments when I just love her compulsive punctuality. We collect Cinna and Portia, and she escorts us around to say good-bye to important people, then herds us to the door.
Suzanne Collins
#45. So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.
W. H. Auden
#46. Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#47. Punctuality is one of the minor virtues which we do not acquire until later in life.
Virginia Woolf
#49. The Peruvian flute music is ... cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.
Kate Braverman
#50. After industry and frugality, nothing contributes more to the raising of a young man in the world than punctuality and justice in all his dealings;
Max Weber
#51. When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. Punctuality can go to the devil.
Hugo Ball
#53. One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#54. Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Louis XVIII
#55. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, does have entrepreneurs.
Aravind Adiga
#56. Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.
Richard Cecil
#58. The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country ... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.
Samuel Smiles
#59. The want of punctuality is a want of honest principle; for however people may think themselves authorised to rob God and themselves of their own time, they can plead no right to lay a violent hand on the time and duties of their neighbor.
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
#60. 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
#61. I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe
#63. It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.
Wes Fesler
#64. Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
E.W. Howe
#67. Japanese are one of the most punctual people he had ever worked with. They could, he imagined, put the Germans to shame in their high expectation for timeliness.
Vann Chow
#68. The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ... Mystery at Geneva
Rose Macaulay
#69. In theory I rather admire the Spaniards for not sharing our Northern time-neurosis; but unfortunately I share it myself.
George Orwell
#70. Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
Karen Joy Fowler
#72. I figured this was the easy stuff, and if we couldn't show up on time, looking right and acting right, we weren't going to be able to do anything else.
Bo Schembechler
#73. I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.
Jennifer DuBois
#74. Women really do want to be on time. It's just that everything starts so darn early.
Sela Ward
#76. The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ...
Rose Macaulay
#77. Sorry we're late," Jason said. "Is this the guy who needs killing?
Rick Riordan
#78. The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early
David O. McKay
