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Quotes About Punctuality

She would be all out of breath and apologize fervently for being late, as though her lateness depended on such a rare and extenuating matrix of once-in-a-lifetime circumstances that it could never possibly happen again. And the next time she would be just as late.
~ Francine Pascal
Frank glanced at his wristwatch. "Sufferin' snakes! We're almost late for class!" With a roar of exhaust, the convertible headed for Bayport High School. Not until they returned home that afternoon were the Hardys able to resume work on the code message.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
~ Abu Bakr
The first thing that strikes a person when it comes to Southern film industries is the hard work, professionalism and the punctuality that people religiously adhere to.
~ Abhimanyu Singh
My father is very hardworking and since I was a child, the one thing that I have noticed about him is his dedication. I have adopted that from him. He is always on time. He always maintains his professionalism.
~ Athiya Shetty
We're taking the road beyond the road less traveled, and being on time will make all difference.
~ Robyn Schneider
Now hurry up. We're taking the road beyond the road less traveled, and being on time will make all the difference.
~ Robyn Schneider
I'll be down at the foot of the road at seven o'clock. The high-school bus covers so much distance and makes so many stops it takes an hour and a half, and I get on at one of the first stops.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the life, although we live by irresistible impulses, as if the order in the closets, in our papers, in our books, in our photographs, in our souvenirs, in our clothes could preserve us from chaos in our feelings, loves, in our work. Indifference to food, sobriety; but this, we admit, is the part of the war against a threatening fragility.
~ Anais Nin
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
~ Samuel Johnson
Mom will not be happy if we wake her up. (She already got annoyed at me once today when I told her she was six minutes and forty-five seconds late picking me up at school. I didn't mean to make her feel bad. But I have a supercool timer on my watch, and if I'm not going to use it to tell her how late she is, then what am I going to use it for?)
~ Sarah Mlynowski
11:14, twenty minutes; at 11:35, twenty-eight minutes; at 11:58,
~ John Brooks
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Never be late Age and time do not wait
~ Ehsan Sehgal
De dónde llegan las fechas y a dónde van? Viajan un año entero y con la precisión de una saeta se clavan en el día señalado, nos muestran un pasado, presente en el espacio, nos deslumbran y se apagan. Se levantan puntuales de un tiempo invisible y en un instante recuperamos el fragmento de un gesto, la torre de una ciudad olvidada, las frases de los héroes disecadas en los libros o el asombro de la mañana del bautizo cuando nos dieron nombre.
~ Elena Garro
A private sector employer has always own profitability merely in mind, so obviously s/he will find own nature compatibility with only that kind of employees who have selfish mentality rather than with those workforce who do job diligently with punctuality and sincerity .
~ Anuj Somany
A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
~ Arnold Bennett
LEGGE DEI TRENI Se il proprio treno è in ritardo, la coincidenza partirà in perfetto orario.
~ Arthur Bloch
A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.
~ Sharon Needles
The Galilee is a quiet place because people have to deliver on time; they don't have time to quarrel.
~ Stef Wertheimer
Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.
~ Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.
~ Gelsey Kirkland
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
~ Charles Dickens
The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual...
~ Rose Macaulay