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#punctuality

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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


#breach #break #break up #dine #engagements

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.


George William Russell


#business #called #engine #first #go

I figured this was the easy stuff, and if we couldn't show up on time, looking right and acting right, we weren't going to be able to do anything else.


Bo Schembechler


#team #winning #leadership

If I promise you I'll show up fifteen minutes late, I'll always arrive on time.


Jarod Kintz


#late #on-time #promise #punctuality #funny

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...Mystery at Geneva


Rose Macaulay


#punctuality #respect

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


#punctuality #manners

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.


Charles Dickens


#could #determination #diligence #done #habits

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.


Louis XVIII


#politeness #punctuality

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.


Richard Cecil


#away #i #i do #made #my own

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


Don Marquis


#always #cardinal #insist #punctuality #subordinates






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