Quotes About Punctuality

I'm up at the crack of dawn. If I'm filming, then I'll wake at 5 A.M. so that I can get on set and made up before the cameras start rolling.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

I finished my dissertation six weeks early. Who does that? As soon as something comes in, I like it to go out.

Boarding school forces you to grow. You have to wake up at a certain time, you have to study, wash your own clothes. We used to play rugby in whites. Can you imagine washing that? And it has to be white. If it was not white, you got punished.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

I'm always a bit late, but I don't mind that, because it means that whoever I'm meeting is already there.

I can't stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let me down. That's why I don't rely on anyone to call me. That's why I have clocks as well as people. I have to be able to call myself; it's the only way to be sure.

If you're not ten minutes early where I'm from, my dad chews you out.

I have such a simple process - it takes me, like, ten minutes to get ready.

I always carry a book with me to read on the bus, and I tend to arrive everywhere early.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

I don't really have any peeves, and I fly other carriers a good bit. My experience has been good in terms of getting on the airplane expeditiously and getting to my destination as need be, on time, with my bags - which I carry on.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.

Need to get to Ruislip by sparrow-fart though', said the squadron leader. 'Think you can do that? Can I come along for the ride?

tardiness was allowable only in babies born past their due date.

close at three o'clock.

At that time in my life I was never late. Only a year later would I suddenly have difficulty hanging on to any sense of time, leaving friends sitting, invariably, for a half hour here or there. Time would waft past me undetectably or absurdly - laughably when I could laugh - in quantities I was incapable of measuring or obeying. But that year, when I was twenty, I was as punctual as a priest. Were priests punctual? Cave-raised, divinely dazed, I believed them to be.

standing there, looking about. He reached into his vest pocket and took out his watch, glanced at it, then returned it to his pocket and walked back to his office. Jordy Neff was waiting

Wait for me, my friend. I may be a little late, but I shall surely come.

stumped in at ten past ten, wearing a checked windcheater that looked as if it was made from a car rug

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Cleaniness is the cornerstone of discipline and the trademark of success