Punctual Quotes

• We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

  Cyril Connolly

  People, Waiting, Anxiety

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• My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

  Billy Wilder

  Aunt, Pay, Punctuation

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• A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Afternoon, Clock

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• 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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• Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Quality, Needs, Punctuality

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.25, Routledge

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• The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Mistake

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 181, 1977.

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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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• Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Creativity, Energy, Habit

  Bill O'Reilly (2002). “The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life”, p.77, Three Rivers Press

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• I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

  Alfie Allen

  Hard Work, Temper, Loses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It's something we have in our power to do. It reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thoughtful, Doubt, Groups

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

  Richard Cecil

  Punctuality, Method, Hinges

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.373

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• 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.

  Charles Simmons

  Good Man, Littles, Energy

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• Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

  Andre Simon

  Food, Vegetables, Ifs And

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• Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Laughter, Being Alone

  'Solitude'

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

  Horatio Nelson

  Change, Success In Life, Punctuality

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• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  Samuel Beckett

  People, Saint, Punctuality

  Waiting for Godot (1955) act 2

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Literature

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• You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Time, May

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 74), 1890.

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• Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

  Roland Barthes

  Games, Play, Waiting

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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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• You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Boys, Order, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.219, Random House

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Laughter, Sleep, Insomnia

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