Promptness Quotes

• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Three

  William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes”, p.56

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• Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Player, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.350

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• Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Work, Blessing, Bores You

  Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962

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• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education". Book by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, 1815.

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• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Positive, Time

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.130

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

  Don Marquis

  Funny Inspirational, Business, Work

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• The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Giving, Chance

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• I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.

  Ben Affleck

  Time, Problem, Zone

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• The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Discovery, Law

  James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.111, MIT Press

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• There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Anomalies, Falsehood

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