Lateness Quotes

“When we are unaware of the substance and importance of our choices, we may fall victim to errors of omission or missed opportunities. If awareness arrives too late, the actions we have not taken or the words that were left unspoken may squeeze us into an irreversible void. Lateness can imply irredeemable failure. ("Island of regret.- Island of remorse.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late....”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Day Watch

“The youthful stationmaster wore a Blue Spot on his uniform and remonstrated with the driver that the train was a minute late, and that he would have to file a report.

The driver retorted that since there could be no material differene between a train that arrived at a station and a station that arrived at a train, it was equally the staionmaster's fault.

The stationmaster replied that he could not be blamed, because he had no control over the speed of the station; to which the engine driver replied that the stationmaster could control its placement, and that if it were only a thousand yards closer to Vermillion, the problem would be solved.

To this the stationmaster replied that if the driver didn't accept the lateness as his fault, he would move the station a thousand yards farther from Vermillion and make him not just late, but demeritably overdue.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap they have in cartoons in the Saturday Evening Post and all, showing guys on street corners looking sore as hell because their dates are late - that's bunk. If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger

“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...”
― Rose Macaulay , Mystery at Geneva

“Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.”
― Arlene Ang

“That's the funny thing about old people: they never seem in a hurry. I think old people have figured out that being five minutes late really doesn't matter much.”
― Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember

“Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“When it is late, everyone cares!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Six Words Inspiration

“Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time”
― Vignesh S

“I'm late, the kind of late that suggest I have no regard for the emotional health of my Nigerian parents who probably think I've been kidnapped by the enemies of progress.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil

“Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Every lateness give us a staggering statistics in negative economic effect”
― Sunday Adelaja

“There is no lateness in life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“My goodness, I daren't think how late we are!" She suddenly developed another craze for speed.”
― Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

“One is never too late to become young at heart.”
― Nadun Lokuliyanage

“You must however pay attention to the fact that we don’t only lose time to lateness. We also lose time to jokes, gossip, empty talks, sleep on duty, social media etc.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“There is no lateness in life. Begin to pursue your dream.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Give, it's time to. Its time too. Time to. Time.”
― Anthony Liccione

“p.46 My tendency for lateness comes from a fear of feeling committed when early...Time is a muscle that seems to randomly flex and relax in a bid to misplace me and many others. I can't rid myself of the sensation that I'm about to fall off the world, as you might fall off the back of a treadmill.”
― Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

“I wait in the lobby for an hour, he’s always really late, but this time I’ve had enough – there’s something so unmasculine about a man who’s always very late – so I give up and go home.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“Some folks are predictably unpredictable.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“It doesn't matter if you start late, as long as you start.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Icon Books How to Rob the Bank of England Keith Cheeseman Reveals the True Story of Britains Biggest Ever Robbery.

“Holding out was a quirk in human nature and those who lived in the Last Minute had found not only was there no penalty in lateness but often a bonus not granted the timely.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“It’s never too late to start being early.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide

“Jane didn't mean to be late, just as she didn't mean for her whole life to feel like an undisciplined failure. She had every intention of being on time and even planned carefully to do so. But something would always come up...Jane lived a priority-less life. Whatever was right in front of her became her new number-one priority. The speaker called her a wonderful woman you'd never want to hire...She is willing to do anything for anyone at any time...Her weakness is that by trying to meet the needs right in front of her, she's unable to keep the commitments she's already made.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“Regalia Mason liked to be early to meetings; it was an interesting way of making others feel uncomfortable. If the most important person in the room is early, even those who are on time feel as though they are late.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Tanglewreck