Punctuality

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• "I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will never be respected or successful in life."
  • Rev. W. Fisk

• "I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me."
  • Lord Nelson

• "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."
  • Horace Mann

• "It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point."
  • La Fontaine

• "I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."
  • Emmons

• "The main problem with punctuality is that there is rarely anyone there to appreciate it."
  • Richard Craycroft