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

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Events, Happens

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

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Moving, Muscles

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

  Wess Stafford

  Children, Divine, Minutes

  Wess Stafford (2013). “Just a Minute: In the Heart of a Child, One Moment ... Can Last Forever.”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Wise, Waiting, Timing

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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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• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  Arthur Miller

  Years, Alive, Ends

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Death of a Salesman”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Tombs

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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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• If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.

  Claud Cockburn

  Believe, Book, People

  Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”

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• In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

  Guy Debord

  Civilization, Youth, Made

  "Panegyric (Volume 1)". Book by Guy Debord, 1989.

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• Clearly it was time to consider rescheduling that optometrist appointment I'd missed last fall.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fall, Lasts

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “Personal Demon”, p.276, Bantam

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