Punctuality Quotes

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality

Richard Cecil

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Thomas C. Haliburton

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin P. Jones

Better never than late.

George Bernard Shaw

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

French Proverb

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

E. V. Verrall

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

Lord Nelson

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

John F. Boyes

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

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Don Marquis

There is something...more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.

Samuel Beckett
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