You or someone you know needs these punctuality quotes. Me…I plan to leave 15 minutes earlier than I need to, because a person never leaves on time. Read on!
Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be. -Unknown
Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality. -Richard Cecil
Punctuality is the politeness of kings. -Louise XVIII
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. -Evelyn Waugh
Want of punctuality is a want of virtue. -J.M. Mason
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. -John F. Boyes
I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me. -Lord Nelson
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. -Lord Chesterfield
Strict punctuality is, perhaps, the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. J.F. Boyes
Want some different quotes and sayings?
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it. -Franklin P. Jones
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
Appointments once made, become debts. If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality; I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. -Cecil
The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings. -French Proverb
I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will never be respected or successful in life. -W. Fisk
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. -William Shakespeare
I could never think well of a man’s intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. -Emmons
The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests. -B. Savarin
Any thoughts on this? Is punctuality really an important virtue? Please share your thoughts and quotes below.
Shaun,
would you have any quotes that encourage us to honor those whom honor is due?
How about some “honor quotes”? I’ll post a bunch Wednesday night; sound good?
Thanks Shaun. I will look for them.
Whoops! I forgot to do them! But I rallied my faculties and made one up tonight. You can find it here:
https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/honor-quotes/
better late than never … haha had to give an opposing view
I came across this pg on fb and i think ua quotes r just awesome!
Very good website
I like this poem thought I would share….
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898 / Cheshire / England)
Punctuality
Man Naturally loves delay,
And to procrastinate;
Business put off from day to day
Is always done to late.
Let ever hour be in its place
Firm fixed, nor loosely shift,
And well enjoy the vacant space,
As though a birthday gift.
And when the hour arrives, be there,
Where’er that “there” may be;
Uncleanly hands or ruffled hair
Let no one ever see.
If dinner at “half-past” be placed,
At “half-past” then be dressed.
If at a “quarter-past” make haste
To be down with the rest
Better to be before you time,
Than e’re to be behind;
To open the door while strikes the chime,
That shows a punctual mind.
Moral:
Let punctuality and care
Seize every flitting hour,
So shalt thou cull a floweret fair,
E’en from a fading flower