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Quotes About Punctuality

Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be all day
~ Unknown
On a larger cultural level, where we live also determines our timeliness. For example, in Australia, you can be assured that your guests will show up thirty minutes late, often with friends in tow that they haven't told you about. In Switzerland, guests are always on time, and if they plan on being five minutes late, they will let you know. Japanese guests will show up a half hour before they are supposed to, and in Israel, they will be forty-five minutes late. Our
~ Martin Lindstrom
Tardiness was the greatest insult of them all; arrangements were made to suit those concerned – it was the height of rudeness to overlook other people's needs.
~ Martina Cole
The trouble with bein early is that nobody's there 2 appreciate it but then again if ur late everyone's there 2 be unappreciative
~ Unknown
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
~ Franklin P Jones
After industry and frugality, nothing contributes more to the raising of a young man in the world than punctuality and justice in all his dealings;
~ Max Weber
Successful people are obsessed with the idea that they are always late.
~ Unknown
There is something about African time that even the Swiss find a challenge.
~ Unknown
Time is everything. Speed is of the essence.
~ Unknown
We are all late all the time even though we know the time better than ever before.
~ Unknown
It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?
~ Patricia Highsmith
The Devil never shows up on time for his own staff meetings, preferring instead to make everyone else stew and wait. Sometimes it's a few minutes, sometimes a few weeks. It can get pretty ugly. Considering
~ Unknown
Early people are anxious, on-time people are obsessive compulsive, and late people are hostile, or passively-aggressively hostile.
~ Unknown
Oscar Wilde es mi héroe en lo referente al tiempo. Él siempre era impuntual. Una vez, cuando llegó excepcionalmente tarde a una cena, la anfitriona señaló enfadada el reloj de la pared y dijo: «Señor Wilde, ¿es consciente de la hora que es?». Y él contestó: «Querida señora, le ruego que me diga cómo puede saber esa dichosa maquinita qué está haciendo el gran sol dorado».
~ Peter James
He hated being late, always felt it was a sign of rudeness, as if you were making the statement, my time's more important than yours, so I can keep you waiting . . .
~ Peter James