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

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Moving, Muscles

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• My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Tombs

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

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Rushing, Trying, Deadline

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

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

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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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• 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 will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Committees, Bipartisan

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• The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Doctors, Two

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (2015). “Oliver Twist, Volume 2 (of 3) (Illustrations)”, p.48, RICHARD BENTLEY

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