Quotes About Punctuality

Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early." I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special. "Well, a lady isn't exactly what they are expecting.

If you go to Japan, even at the pokiest little station, every single train is arrives and leaves on time - not to a couple of minutes, within 30 seconds. In Canada, they have constant problems with massive avalanches and bear attacks on the line, but all these problems are solved immediately.

If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.

Discipline is doing the right thing, for the right reason, at the right time.

There's no reason, ever, to be late. Or early.

I've inherited my mom's nurturing side, but I've also gotten her 'chronically five minutes late for everything' side, too!

Read or Starve. Show me a man who has made fifty thousand dollars, and I will show you in that man an equivalent of energy, attention to detail, trustworthiness, punctuality, professional knowledge, good address, common sense, and other marketable qualities.

I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

I looked at my pocket watch. It was half past IX.

15 Minutes! Muttered Vidal, who like all monsters, like death, was always punctual.

Vidal, que, como todos os monstros, especialmente a Morte, sempre é pontual.

William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.

Mr. Pappleworth arrived, chewing a chlorodyne gum, at about twenty to nine, when all the other men were at work.

Mr. Franklin kept a horn book always in his pocket in which he minuted all his invitations to dinner, and Mr. Lee said it was the only thing in which he was punctual 

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

There is usually very little plausible reason for a show to run late. I have no patience with bands who, for no other reason than sloppiness and ego, make the paying customers wait for a show to start.

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

Showing up early is one of the signs of a noble person....

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.

I used to work at Kroger's. When the store opened, you were there. When I worked in an automobile plant, you punched in. So it showed if you were a minute late. If you have a paid job, you show up.

Hey, you're here," I say, catching my breath. "Sorry I'm late." "That's all right," she says, and I have to wonder how many times she said that to the people who screwed her over somehow. "No," I say. "It's not all right. But I couldn't help it.