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
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