Being on Time Quotes

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.

I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

If you're not ten minutes early where I'm from, my dad chews you out.

You're late," she said, tapping her watch. "No, you're just early.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

He who never hurries is always on time.

I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

I hate being late. I am always punctual. In fact, I am known for it.

I am working never to be late again.

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

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.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

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

I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.

I am very, very conscious of time. I always wear two watches. People ask me, 'Why do you do that?' Because I was late once, and it cost me a huge opportunity.

You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20 years and be successful, because you won't have developed the habits of success, which are small things like finishing what you start, putting a lot of effort into everything you do, being on time, treating people well.

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

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

I'm usually pretty punctual. I'm not one to like to be late. When I was younger, I was the guy who'd leave the house early if I had to get somewhere and drive around for a while until it got to be time to show up.

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

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