Quotes on Punctual

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.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

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

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.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

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