A Quote by John Frederick Boyes
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
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Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.
Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.
Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.
All those who have played with me are aware that I am very strict when it comes to discipline and punctuality.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.
Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.
Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.
If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find a way to make your mark; otherwise you're just this tiny little insignificant dot. I didn't want to be insignificant, so I made people laugh.
I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?
A character like Baahubali required a preparation that I had to undergo mentally and physically - from undertaking a strict routine and a lifestyle, which helped me become the character physically, to knowing the character's depth and a lot more.
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.
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