George Bernard Shaw
“Better never than late.”
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John M. Mason
“Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.”
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Louis XVIII
“Punctuality is the politeness of kings.”
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
“Punctuality is the soul of business.”
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E. V. Verrall
“I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.”
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Janise Wooten
“When I finally pass away I don't want to be labeled "the late, late Janise”
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French Proverb
“The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.”
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William Shakespeare
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
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David O. McKay
"The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early"
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John A. Widtsoe
“Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.”
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Author Unkown
“Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be”
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Richard Cecil
“Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality”
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Gearald Barzan
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone.”
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Franklin P. Jones
“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.”
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Wes Fessler
“It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.”
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Niccolo Machiavelli
“Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”
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Boyd K. Packer
“Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.”
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.”
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Lord Nelson
“I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.”
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Don Marquis
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
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Samuel Beckett
“We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?”
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Author Unknown
“If you are 15 minutes early you are on time. If you are on time you are late and if your late you didn’t want to be there.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“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.”
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Richard Cecil
“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.”
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Grenville Kleiser
“As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you”
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Nathaniel Emmons
“I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”
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Horace Mann
“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.”
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John F. Boyes
"Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character."
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Sterling W. Sill
“Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination…”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“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.”
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Charles Dickens
“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.”
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Wilbur Fisk
“I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will never be respected or successful in life.”
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Charles Fontaine
“When a secretary of Washington, excusing himself for being late, said that his watch was too slow, the reply of Washington was, ‘You must get a new watch, or I must get a new secretary.’”
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William Mathews
“Nothing inspires confidence in a business man sooner than punctuality, nor is there any habit which sooner saps his reputation than that of being always behind time.”
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William Hazlitt
“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.”
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Author Unknown
Punctuality, my children," said the old man, "is the thief of time. I have been a victim to the pernicious vice of punctuality all my life. I must have wasted years by being up to time and having to wait for people."
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Charles Simmons
“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.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“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.”
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Sterling W. Sill
"The Lord is the greatest of all believers in punctuality. In fact he is the author of punctuality. He has a billion planets whirling through space in different directions and at different speeds, but each one is exactly on time. If one planet were a half minute late there might be very serious consequences. But God, who is the author of order, is in the habit of having his creations in exactly the right places at exactly the right time. Then how do you think he must feel when his greatest masterpiece, created in his own image, shows a high degree of irresponsibility and undependability in keeping his most simple appointments?”
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