Top 4 Punctual Quotes - Quoted Daily

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

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

Change, Success In Life, Punctuality

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Soul, Punctuality

"Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Book by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1859.

It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.

Wes Fesler

People, Waiting, Punctuality

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Men, Punctuality, Virtue

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

Louis XVIII of France

Kings, Punctuality, Politeness

Attributed, in 'Souvenirs de J. Lafitte' (1844) bk. 1, ch. 3

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

Arriving, Way, Punctuality

Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.163, Penguin

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

Laurence J. Peter

Mistake, Punctual

"Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 181, 1977.

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

Bertrand Russell

Quality, Needs, Punctuality

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

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Guests, Punctuality, Said

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Leonard Francis Simpson (1859). “The handbook of dining, based chiefly upon the Physiologie du goût of Brillat-Savarin”, p.7

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

Samuel Beckett

People, Saint, Punctuality

Waiting for Godot (1955) act 2

Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.

James Murray Mason

Want, Punctuality, Virtue

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

Benjamin Franklin

Punctuality, Virtue, Strict

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

Richard Cecil

Punctuality, Method, Hinges

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

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Lonely, Mind, Punctuality

Women really do want to be on time. It's just that everything starts so darn early.

Sela Ward

Want, Punctuality

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

John Frederick Boyes

Character, Giving, Punctuality

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

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, Punctuality

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

E. W. Howe

Funny, Time, Punctuality

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

E. V. Lucas

Lonely, Punctuality, Believer

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

Jean de La Fontaine

Running, Use, Punctuality

"Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, p. 928, 1915.

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

Jim Butcher

People, Punctuality

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

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

Bertrand Russell

Ordinary, Punctuality

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

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, Punctuality

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