Here are some more thoughts:
“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
“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
-Lord Chesterfield
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
-Don Marquis
“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
“Punctuality is the soul of business.”
-Thomas Chandler Haliburton
“I could never think well of a man’s intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”
- Nathaniel Emmons
“Punctuality is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.”
-Charles Simmons
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
-William Shakespeare
“Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”
-Niccolo Machiavelli
