Quotes about Punctuality
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
- Euripides
The business world—where the majority of American men live and die—requires a man to be efficient and punctual. Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce.
- John Eldredge
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
William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.
- DH Lawrence
Mr. Pappleworth arrived, chewing a chlorodyne gum, at about twenty to nine, when all the other men were at work.
- DH Lawrence
Lord Henry had not yet come in. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
- Oscar Wilde
Lord Henry had not come in yet. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
- Oscar Wilde
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
- Oscar Wilde
If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 A.M., things will work out for you.
- Gordon Hinckley
The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
- CS Lewis
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
- Vance Havner
Would you say, "Billy, be home by the time the Earth has rotated enough so as to occult the Sun below the local horizon"? Billy would be long gone before you're finished.
- Carl Sagan