Punctuality Quotes

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club

“Sorry we’re late,” Jason said. “Is this the guy who needs killing?”
― Rick Riordan House of Hades

“I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late.”
― Lik Hock Yap Ivan

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We teach our child many things I don’t believe in, and almost nothing I do believe in. We teach punctuality, particularly if the enforcement of it disturbs the peace. My father taught me, by example, that the greatest defeat in life was to miss a train. Only after many years did I learn that an escaping train carries away with it nothing vital to my health. Railroad trains are such magnificent objects we commonly mistake them for Destiny.”
― E.B. White, One Man's Meat

“The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, 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 , Mystery at Geneva

“You cannot respect someone but disrespect their time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you have been told that you are late and unreliable more than once, then not only do you lack punctuality, but you also lack decency and seriousness, which is certainly very annoying.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“-Oamenii care intarzie de obicei nu inteleg niciodata nenumaratele moduri in care dau peste cap programul celor punctuali si normali, ii spuse Penn in timp ce tranversau o portiune mai alunecoasa a peluzei.”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

“That man who is regular and punctual will get sure success in all walks of life.”
― Sivananda Saraswati, Sure Ways for Success in Life and God Realisation

“Self discipline, punctuality and time management are very important - for life is short, and every resource you have must be well utilized so that you find enlightenment and liberation - your ultimate goal.”
― Dada J.P. Vaswani

“Japanese are one of the most punctual people he had ever worked with. They could, he imagined, put the Germans to shame in their high expectation for timeliness.”
― Vann Chow, The White Man and the Pachinko Girl

“Being early meant being on time. Being on time meant being late. But being late was unacceptable.”
― L.C. Perry, Gold Shadow

“The person you are mad at for being late could be dead.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Musicians may be walking asscracks or they may be God’s mouthpiece on Earth, but punctual they ain’t.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“When you keep people waiting they begin to think of all your flaws.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“As expected, Nevada’s summer heat was oppressive; temperatures under the desert sun bubbled around the 130-degree mark, which made it even harder for Monroe and almost everyone except [Clark] Gable to put in a full day’s work. Though he had a chauffeured limousine at his disposal, he drove himself back and forth to work in his silver Mercedes-Benz SC. He always arrived punctually at eight-forty-five A.M., bringing along gallon Thermoses of booze-spiked lemonade and iced tea to fortify himself. For the better part of the morning, he would sit around studying that day’s script pages or gabbing with the crew while waiting for the other principals to arrive.

Though the delays were driving him mad, he tried not to show it. But one day while his writer-friend John Lee Mahin was visiting from Los Angeles, Gable told him, “It’s not professional, John, it’s stealing. It’s stealing the bank’s money and United Artists’ money. I don’t see how they’re going to get a picture out of this, but I’m stuck with it now, and I’m trying to do the best I can. It’s been hard on me.”
― Warren G. Harris, Clark Gable: A Biography

“Latecomer deserves little, latecomer gets losses and leftovers.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“A man who asks for your time but doesn't value it, will one day ask for your money and won't return it.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Never turn your back against what you swore to protect with your life.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“The person you are mad at for being late could be late.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“You can wear an expensive watch and still be late.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He was a chronomancer in managing his time, a true magician with it. He had duties, everyone has duties, but he knew that not everyone has to be late because of them.”
― Criss Jami

“ON MY WAY, I was learning, was the product of Barack's eternal optimism, an indication of his eagerness to be home that did nothing to signify when he would actually arrive. ALMOST HOME was not a geo-locator but rather a state of mind.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Ramona was the sort of girl who was always early because something might happen that she didn't want to miss.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona's World

“punctuality is an attribute karma lacks”
― Suraj Sani

“I mean, time may seem boundless and infinite, but the boundlessness and infinity only reinforces the limitations of time, because it shows our limited ability to reach the unlimitedness of time. Because of our mortality and the need for punctuality, we have no other choice but to be limited by time. I am limited by time. I don’t have infinite amounts of time to write this essay, let alone write every essay I want to write in the future, which ultimately can simplify to: “I don’t have infinite amounts of time to live.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation