Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself. — Confucius
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. — Chinese Proverbs
If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside. — Julius Nyerere
An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in. — Mike Hernacki
The doors will be opened to those who are bold enough to knock. — Tony Gaskins
Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. — Mary Engelbreit
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. — Douglas MacArthur
If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car! — Prince
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it. — Billy Graham
Open Door Image Quotes
A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. — John Barrymore
Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready. — Nipsey Hussle
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. — Emily Dickinson
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. — Clarence Thomas
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. — Joseph Campbell
Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring that opens the door.
Positive Open Door Quotes
A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life. — Joel Benjamin
An affirmation opens the door. It's a beginning point on the path to change. — Louise Hay
Great communicators have an appreciation for positioning. They understand the people they're trying to reach and what they can and can't hear. They send their message in through an open door rather than trying to push it through a wall. — John P. Kotter
Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be. — Joseph Campbell
Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream. — Peter McWilliams
When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. — Joseph Campbell
The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open.
If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace. — Paul Brunton
To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through. — Pierre Omidyar
Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything. — Rumi
Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with. — Paulo Coelho
God Open Doors Quotes
Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil. — Chuck Smith
Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light. — Ambrose
God can take better care of you than you could ever take of yourself. He could open doors for you that you could never open. He can close doors that will keep you out of trouble. God can give you favor everywhere that you go. — Joyce Meyer
If It doesn't open, It's not your door.
Keep honoring God with your life, stay in peace, trust His timing and God will open doors that no man can shut. — Joel Osteen
When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn’t, just trust. — Kari Jobe
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! — Elif Safak
Old days won't open new doors.
God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think. — Zig Ziglar
If I embrace who I am it will open doors not shut them. If your faith won't fit in the door that opens then I argue do not walk through that door. The door that God has opened for you will fit your faith. — DeVon Franklin
Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way. — Joel Osteen
The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’ — Jonathan Edwards
Closing One Door To Open Another Quotes
You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward. — Joel Osteen
Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. — Bryan Adams
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open. — Charles Fort
Old ways won't open new doors.
If you've tried everything possible to get an outcome, and it just hasn't worked out as planned, stop trying so hard. Relax. Maybe the timing's not right. Maybe it wasn't in your best interests. Maybe while one door seems to be closing, another is opening. — Robin S. Sharma
When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder. — Noel Clarke
closes, another one opens. Expect that new door to reveal even greater wonders and glories and surprises. ... Feel yourself grow and expand as you go through every experience, and look for the reason for it. — Eileen Caddy
Your teacher can open the door, but you must enter by yourself
There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens. — Andre Gide
I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there. — David Mitchell
Door Close Another Open Quotes
When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between. — Rick Jarow
When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator. — Bonnie McFarlane
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. — Gail Sheehy
Old ways won't open new doors.
We've all heard that in life, when one door is closed, another is opened. Unfortunately, many of us are so focused on the darkness left by what has been lost, we never see the light coming through the newly opened door. — Bill Crawford
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one. — Andre Gide
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us. — Helen Keller
Follow your dreams and the universe will open doors where there we only walls.
You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens. — Chris Daughtry
When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. — Bob Marley
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us. — Helen Keller
When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened. — Helen Keller
My Door Is Always Open Quotes
"My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property. — Robert Six
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
My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra. — Joan Halifax
Today I close the door the door to my past, open the door to my future, take a deep breath and step through to a new life.
My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance! — Kate Moss
I have always seen myself as an athlete. Of course, I made the mistake of unintentionally opening the door to my private life by just a crack. I wouldn't do the same thing again. It has to be accepted that my private life is private, and if that isn't the case, I have to do something about it. — Oliver Kahn
I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave. — Veronica Roth
Open Window Quotes
A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows — Linus Torvalds
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. — Charles Spurgeon
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. — Herbert Hoover
Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world. — Max Lucado
we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. — Ernest Hemingway
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more — Bob Dylan
I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. — George Bernard Shaw
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. — Marcus Aurelius
Front Door Quotes
When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference? — Jesse Owens
A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove. — Sam Haskins
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers. — D. A. Carson
It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word. — Erma Bombeck
A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave. — Geert Wilders
I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels. — Tony Abbott
Reverse-engineer Hollywood is how I think of it. All the social-media stars are going in the back door, and everyone's trying to get in the front - there's a line outside. And then everyone's trying to sneak around back, but then there's security, you know? — Jake Paul
When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler. — Willie Aames
The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door — Erki Nool
We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Open Book Quotes
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself. — Haile Selassie
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi
When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention. — Nouman Ali Khan
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens. — Galileo Galilei
I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! — Abigail Williams
I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company. — Ida Tarbell
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. — Natasha Bedingfield
With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves. — Akira Toriyama
My life is an open book. With illustrations. — Hugh Hefner
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything. — Sivananda
There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting. — Keith Richards
There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough LOVE will not open, no gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge, no wall that enough LOVE will not throw down, no sin that enough LOVE will not redeem. — Emmet Fox
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens
Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out. — William Tyndale
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. — Alexander Graham Bell
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. — Billy Sunday
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied. — Shams Tabrizi
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant. — Ida B. Wells
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller
To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open. — Anton Szandor LaVey
By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once. — Rumi
And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. — Luke the Evangelist
The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable. — Malcolm Gladwell
Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked. — Winston Churchill
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. — Deepak Chopra
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