These appointment quotes will inspire you. Appointment, an arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging appointment quotes, appointment sayings, and appointment proverbs.
Best Appointment Quotes
- “We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.” ~ Michelle Obama
- “Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.” ~ Epictetus
- “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
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“We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.” ~ Gene Roddenberry
- “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
- “God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments” ~ Oswald Chambers
- “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
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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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“He has so many muscles he has to make an appointment to move his fingers.” ~ Phyllis Diller
- “We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “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
- “I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“My enemies make appointments at my tomb.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “I meditate whenever I can. I can be in the back seat of a car or in between appointments.” ~ Donna Karan
- “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
- “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
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“Somewhere in the world is a doctor who is worse than all other doctors…and someone has an appointment with him in the morning.” ~ George Carlin
- “A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.” ~ Stephen King
- “Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.” ~ Confucius
- “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” ~ Aesop
- “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
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“I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.” ~ Nancy Pelosi
- “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
- “I think appointments are caustic to creativity.” ~ David Karp
- “You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “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
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“I can’t sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit around having coffee talking about the jobs they didn’t get.” ~ Eva Marie Saint
- “The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
and I would not own one
except I miss appointments without it.” ~ Brian Andreas - “Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.” ~ Max O’Rell
- “There’s an interesting study that says wealthy people get up three hours before their first outside appointment.” ~ Brian Tracy
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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
- “I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.” ~ Wess Stafford
- “After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.” ~ Arthur Miller
- “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
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“We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Rescind the appointment of [Steve] Bannon. We will not be involved in the expansion of bigotry, of racism, sexism, homophobia.” ~ Bernie Sanders
- “[Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that, again, goes to me is most.” ~ Lawrence O’Donnell
- “I have two kids, and when my oldest was first born, it was the most vulnerable feeling in the world. I remember taking him to his first doctor’s appointment, and on the sheet, it said “mother,” and I put my mom’s name. I was like, “Oh, right, I … I’m the mother!” You just feel so vulnerable.” ~ Kathryn Hahn
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“On gym days, I don’t get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.” ~ Peter Straub
- “The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it’s like a Supreme Court appointment – they’re stuck with you for a long time.” ~ William Safire
- “Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.” ~ J. B. Priestley
- “People in Congress are willing to shut down the entire government or to make it impossible for a Supreme Court nominee to get a hearing or for routine appointments in the executive branch to go unfilled for years because of a hold placed by a senator.” ~ George Packer
- “One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, ‘which controls which?’ . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.” ~ Dan Barker
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“I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.” ~ Bob Menendez
- “I had an agent. When [Edward] Steichen was doing “The Family of Man”, I went up to the office one day. I think Wayne Miller, who assisted Steichen with “The Family of Man,” was up there and pulled out a bunch of pictures. So I got a message: “Take these pictures, call Steichen, make an appointment and take these pictures up there.” And that’s how I met him.” ~ Garry Winogrand
- “President [Barack] Obama, it took him a number of days to do [appointments to Administration] and it took former President Bill Clinton even longer.” ~ Kristen Welker
- “Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to ascribe what we meet with either to good or ill luck and fortune. There are many events in the world which men look upon as mere accidents, yet all these come by the counsel and appointment of Heaven.” ~ Thomas Boston
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“Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.” ~ Robert Breault
- “I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.” ~ Adolf von Harnack
- “In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with spirit refreshed, and with a renewed sense of power. I hear a voice in the silences, and become increasingly aware that it is the voice of God.” ~ David Brainerd
- “Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) you have to keep going when you’re depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues.” ~ Virginia Heffernan
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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
- “I worry about the lack of experience that Rex Tillerson has had on the diplomatic front and, frankly, I think that’s true for many of the appointments to [Donald] Trump’s cabinet.” ~ Claire McCaskill
- “Mayor De Blasio’s appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and frisk is like asking an arsonist to help you put out fires. Bratton along with his partner Giuliani started and supported racial profiling stops. A new progressive mayor? I think not!” ~ Charles Barron
- “It wasn’t exactly a cattle call. I had an agent, and they were seeing people for the parts, so my agent said, “Here’s the script, see if there’s anything that speaks to you.” And I did, and I called my agent and said, “I think this character Data is kind of interesting,” and she said, “Well, okay, I’ll get you the appointment with Junie Lowry.” I had to read with the casting agent first, ’cause nobody really knew me then. Then after that, I had, I think, six different auditions for the role. And finally it was me [on Star Trek].” ~ Brent Spiner
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“The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.” ~ Holbrook Jackson
- “When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like “winning the lottery.” I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.” ~ Ruth Simmons
- “I call upon Donald Trump to rescind the appointment that he made of Stephen Bannon. A president of the United States should not have a racist at his side, unacceptable.” ~ Bernie Sanders
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“Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God” ~ Orson Pratt
- “I don’t want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life…. I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.” ~ Stephen King
- “We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is ‘walking for pleasure’ (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.” ~ Stewart Udall
