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• Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Literature

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• Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

  Jim Butcher

  People

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.318, Penguin

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• Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Virtue, Strict

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• Punctuality is the sole of business.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Sole

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• Punctuality comes high on my list of unforgivable sins.

  Dorothy Cannell

  Unforgivable Sin, Lists, Sin

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• One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Way, Helping, Privacy

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• Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

  Richard Cecil

  Method, Hinges, Punctual

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.373

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• The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early

  David O. McKay

  Minutes, Meetings

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• Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Character, Giving, Virtue

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.4

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• It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Time, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

  Horatio Nelson

  Change, Success In Life, Hours

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• The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Happiness, Kindness, Practice

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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

  Money, Honesty, Integrity

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 74), 1890.

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• Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.

  Sterling W Sill

  People, Quality, Virtue

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• Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Virtue, Courtesy

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

  Don Marquis

  Funny Inspirational, Business, Work

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• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  Samuel Beckett

  People, Saint, Boast

  Waiting for Godot (1955) act 2

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• Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Lonely, Mind, Virtue

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• I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

  Peter Ustinov

  Travel, Wine, Italian

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• The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual.

  Rose Macaulay

  Lateness, Illusion, Serene

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”

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• I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

  E. V. Lucas

  Lonely, Believer

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Soul, Quality

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.25, Routledge

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• Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

  Jan Struther

  Adventure, Thieves

  Jan Struther (1938). “Try anything twice: essays and sketches”

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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

  Friendship, Breakup, Promise

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

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