Appointments Quotes

• We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Balance, Needs

  "Encouraging Quotes from Michelle Obama", www.beliefnet.com.

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• Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Events, Happens

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• Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Intelligent, Self, Discipline

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• We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Journey, Space, Star Gazing

  Yvonne Fern, Gene Roddenberry (1996). “Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation : A Dialogue With the Creator of Star Trek”, Star Trek

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• God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

  Oswald Chambers

  Creating, Moments, Divine

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• The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

  Confucius

  Mean, Men, Waiting

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.291

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• Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Regret, Past

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Lilian Cheung (2010). “Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• My timing is so precise, a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.

  Phyllis Diller

  Hecklers, Timing, Precise

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Money, Honesty, Integrity

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 74), 1890.

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• I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.

  Daesung

  Feel Good, Late, Feels

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• Don't let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Hurt, Disappointment, Today

  Twitter post from Feb 25, 2016

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• First, there's the job - where the goal is simply to earn a living and support your family. Then there's the career - where you trace your progress through various appointments and achievements. Finally, there's the calling - the ideal blend of activity and character that makes work inseparable from life.

  Robert Bella

  Jobs, Character, Careers

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• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  Samuel Beckett

  People, Saint, Punctuality

  Waiting for Godot (1955) act 2

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• He has so many muscles he has to make an appointment to move his fingers.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Moving, Muscles

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• Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Enemy, Busy

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Bedside Blessings: 365 Days of Inspirational Thoughts”, p.291, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Rushing, Trying, Deadline

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• Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

  Confucius

  Life, Philosophical, Fate

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

  Oscar Wilde

  Business, Missing, Anxious

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.269, Penguin

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• I meditate whenever I can. I can be in the back seat of a car or in between appointments.

  Donna Karan

  Car, Seats, I Can

  "Donna Karan's New Fragrance Is Zen in a Bottle". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. September 16, 2016.

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• My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Tombs

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• Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

  Nhat Hanh

  Joy, Life Is, Moments

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• Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Design, Heaven

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• I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

  David Karp

  Creativity, Thinking, Caustic

  "David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr" by Liz Welch, www.inc.com.

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• A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Successful, Missing

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• The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Running, Kings, Women

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