Quotes on "Punctuality"
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Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
John F. Boyes
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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality , I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
Richard Cecil
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield
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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt
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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis
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I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
Lord Nelson
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The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.
French Proverb
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Punctuality is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons
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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
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I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.
E. V. Verrall
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George Bernard Shaw
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Louis XVII
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Punctuality is the soul of business.
Thomas C. Haliburton
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