Quotes About Punctuality

I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

A stitch in time saves nine. The early bird catches the worm. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do

Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point

His standards for himself, and for everybody around him, are the highest. He was Foreign Office trained and wants the world to function at that level. He is meticulous about everything; he hates to be late; he hates inaccuracy; he double checks everything; he follows up everything; he has fallbacks if things should, in spite of everybody's efforts, go wrong.7

Un plan prost executat la timp este mai bun decât un plan genial pus în practic? prea târziu.

The real curriculum is punctuality, obedience and the acceptance of monotony, those skills we shall require later in life. Oblique aversion therapy to cure us of our thirst for information, and condition us so that thereafter we forge an association between indolence and pleasure. We confuse rebellion with a hairstyle

Even in some industrialized nations, time is viewed more as an estimate than an exact science. Brazilians, Spaniards, and Southeast Indians, for instance, don't value punctuality as highly as the Swiss, Germans or North Americans and have a pretty flexible idea of what's considered "on time.

Never plan to be exactly on time. Always plan to be early. Doing so will usually get you there just in time. -

Another woman gave her boyfriend a ten-minute back rub every day he managed to arrive for dinner by 7:00.

Diana Delonzor

In Yuri's early years of activism, [Mae] Mallory served as an important political mentor. Not only did Mallory have a visible leadership role, usually reserved for men, she also, remarked Yuri, 'taught me how to be a good Movement person. She was always on time, responsible & reliable, accurate in giving out information, and she wanted other people to be the same.

God is never late and rarely early. He is always exactly right on time--His time.

Don't ever be late. It's like proclaiming that your time is more important than someone else's.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

His unpunctuality was to be a lifelong trait; even as prime minister he would arrive late or with only minutes to spare for meetings with Cabinets and monarchs and for debates in Parliament. As his exasperated wife was to say, 'Winston always likes to give the train a sporting chance to get away.'47

His unpunctuality was to be a lifelong trait; even as prime minister he would arrive late or with only minutes to spare for meetings with Cabinets and monarchs and for debates in Parliament. As his exasperated wife was to say, 'Winston always likes to give the train a sporting chance to get away.

Si una cocinera no huele bien, no es puntual, rápida, prolija alegra y un poco desvergonzada, le había dicho, no sirve para cocinera; puede ser que sepa cocinar pero no sirve para cocinera y tarde o temprano eso se nota.

The amount of time she had at her disposal made it difficult for her to be late for anything, even for her own breakfast. And she suspected that even if she were to waste time she would still find a way to be entirely punctual, to the intense annoyance of those who had never mastered the art. For it was an art, less to do with courtesy than with modesty. Only grander personalities could afford to assume that others would wait.

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

I have worked with producers like Saif Ali Khan and Salman Khan, and there have never been any complaints about my late-comings.

I'm a disciplinarian. And I've always been disciplined. I like to be on time. If I have a job to do, I'm going to see it from its beginning to its conclusion. No excuses, no alibis. That's how I run my life. It's called self-tough love.