Doors Quotes - Page 14

• With every door that closes a new one opens.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  18 Copy quote

• The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward.

  Melissa Rivers

  Mom, Giving Up, Believe

  8 Copy quote

• Why do you want to open the outside door when there is an inside door?

  Yogaswami

  Want

  10 Copy quote

• If the enemy opens the door, you must race in.

  Sun Tzu

  Race, Enemy, Ifs

  Tzu Sun (1994). “The Art of War”, p.171, Basic Books

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of course, there's some you think, well I wouldn't let them in the door, but there's not many. It's very important to know that it's a mutual thing, that there is respect and a form of teamwork. With quite a few of them it can be traumatic, but there are moments in here when they do extraordinary things with their designs. There are things of beauty I get to see in this office.

  Louise Wilson

  Teamwork, Thinking, Office

  4 Copy quote

• Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

  Jean Vanier

  Prayer, Garden, Silence

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.190, Paulist Press

  94 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

  John Scott

  Ideas, Next, Come Up

  9 Copy quote

• When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

  Dick Cavett

  Kids, Car, House

  4 Copy quote

• I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, School, Boys

  4 Copy quote

• Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors.

  Corey Ford

  Hair, Wife, Missing

  4 Copy quote

• Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Doe, Inward

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.11, Princeton University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sunshine, Thinking About You, Soul

  Elbert Hubbard (2012). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors”, p.137, tredition

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• We open the door for God to work by placing faith in His Word, and we open the door for Satan to work by placing faith in his word. He places thought in our minds that are not true, but can become true for us if they are believed.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mind, Satan, Ifs

  "Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone". Book by Joyce Meyer, abcnews.go.com. 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Confidently open your most intimate aspirations to the Love of Christ who waits for you in the Eucharist. You will receive the answer to all your worries and you will see with joy that the consistency of your life which He asks of you is the door to fulfill the noblest dreams of your youth.

  Pope John Paul II

  Dream, Worry, Joy

  5 Copy quote

• If you cannot sell, you cannot be an entrepreneur. If you cannot sell, you cannot raise money. if the thought of sales terrifies you, get a job at a dept. store and start there. Or get a job with a company like Xerox that requires that you go around to businesses and knock on doors. As your courage increases, you may want to try a company in network marketing or direct sales that is willing to train you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Entrepreneur, Marketing

  7 Copy quote

• There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us to get at meaning we can't get to through the front door.

  Phil Cousineau

  Soul, Stuff, Rooms

  Phil Cousineau (2003). “Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives”, p.20, Conari Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Want, Come Up

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from May 15, 2012

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.

  Charlie Brooker

  Army, Fire, Breathing

  "Supposing... We invent some decoy doomsday scenarios" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2006.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.

  Tom Hollander

  Spiritual, Church, Married

  4 Copy quote

• No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

  Harvey Mackay

  Long, Treats, Determine

  6 Copy quote

• Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them.

  Victoria Moran

  Heaven, Looks, Remember

  5 Copy quote

• [The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

  George Washington

  Party, Passion, Government

  George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.30, New York : J. Wiley

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Bridges, Skills

  4 Copy quote

• I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Attitude, Opportunity, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

  Deepak Chopra

  Vanity, Unhappy, Stubborn

  Deepak Chopra (1996). “The Return of Merlin”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

  4 Copy quote

  Show source