Sayings about Doors
Whoever keeps his door locked all the time longs for it to be broken down. ~ Chinese Proverb
It’s a big wind that blows on small doors. ~ French Proverb
Never open a door that you can’t lock again. ~ Iranian Proverbs
It is useless to knock at the door of a deaf man. ~ Greek Proverbs
When one door shuts, another opens. ~ Traditional Proverb
We let him in, and now he shows us the door. ~ Berber Proverb
He who wants to tell the truth will always stand before closed doors. ~ Danish Proverbs
While keeping a tiger from the front door, the wolf comes in at the back. ~ Chinese Proverb
Follow the saint no further than his doorstep. ~ Egyptian Proverbs
The door of success is marked “push” and “pull.” ~ Yiddish Proverb
Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors. ~ Swedish Proverbs
Believe the liar up to the door of his house and no further than that. ~ Egyptian Proverb
The man whose conscience is clear will never fear a knock on the door at midnight. ~ Chinese Proverb
At death’s door a man will beg for the fever. ~ Armenian Proverbs
When you have three daughters, you sleep with the door open. ~ Korean Proverb
Who stands by the door of his house is not yet gone away. ~ Finnish Proverbs
He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. ~ Dutch Proverb
Many open a door to shut a window. ~ Dutch Proverb
The door to virtue is heavy and hard to open. ~ Chinese Proverb
Insects do not nest in a busy door-hinge. ~ Chinese Proverb
Nobles and dogs leave the door open. ~ German Proverbs
The best kind of closed door is the one you can leave unlocked. ~ Chinese Proverb
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ~ Chinese Proverb
When hard work goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window. ~ Dutch Proverb
Lock your door rather than accuse your neighbor. ~ Lebanese Proverb
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
If you have never done anything evil, you should not be worrying about devils knocking at your door. ~ Chinese Proverb
Slander piles itself before the door of a widow. ~ Chinese Proverb
To contradict means sometimes to knock at the door to see if anyone is at home. ~ French Proverb
Friends sleep when misfortune knocks on the door. ~ Polish Proverbs
Kind words will unlock an iron door. ~ Kurdish Proverb
The back of one door is the face of another. ~ Traditional Proverb
It is no fun to guard a house with two doors. ~ Spanish Proverbs
The doorstep of the palace is very slippery. ~ Polish Proverb
The ear is only a door. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
The last shuts the door. ~ German Proverb
If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
A doorstep is the highest of all mountains. ~ Slovenian Proverb
Silence is the door of consent. ~ Berber Proverb
If you want to keep camels, have a big enough door. ~ Afghan Proverb
Beware of the door with too many keys. ~ Portuguese Proverb
You can lock your door from a thief, but not from a damned liar. ~ Virgin Islander Proverb
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges. ~ Romanian Proverbs
He who would make a golden door must add a nail to it daily. ~ German Proverbs
Every door may be shut but death’s door. ~ Italian Proverb
The mouth is the door of evil. ~ Japanese Proverb
Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot. ~ Irish Proverb
Don’t lock the stable door after the horse is stolen. ~ English Proverb
Patience can break through iron doors. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
When fortune knocks open the door. ~ German Proverb
Earth is like a prison: we all go in through the same door, but we stay in different cells. ~ Bantu Proverb
God’s help is nearer than the door. ~ Irish Proverb
The open door invites the thief. ~ Dutch Proverb
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. ~ Traditional Proverb
The doorway to charity is difficult to open and difficult to close. ~ Chinese Proverb
When God shuts one door, He opens another. ~ Arabian Proverb
Misfortune only comes in when the door is open. ~ Chinese Proverb
The greatest step is out the door. ~ German Proverb
Unless you call out, who will open the door? ~ Ethiopian Proverb
The place of an uninvited guest is behind the door. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
Once you have locked your door you are the emperor in your own domain. ~ Mongolian Proverbs
Quotations about Doors
Where one door closes, another opens. ~ Don Quijote
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~ Confucius Quotes
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. ~ Jim Morrison
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~ William Blake
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. ~Joseph Campbell
Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door. ~ Kyle Chandler
Death is a door life opens. ~ Adela Rogers St. Johns
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ~ Walt Disney Quotes
A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. ~ Percy Ross
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. ~ Jim Morrison
God enters by a private door into every individual. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Doorman — a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip. ~ Dorothy Kilgallen
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. ~ George Washington Carver
Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open. ~ Author Unknown
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room. ~ Elizabeth Bibesco
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through. ~ Jesse Jackson
Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don’t you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that’s all. ~ George Eliot
Prayer is the key that opens the door to all that is good in life. ~ Author Unknown
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~ Meister Eckhart
Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you. ~ Author Unknown
You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. ~ Maxwell Maltz
Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life,. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~ Flora Whittemore
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them. ~ Elizabeth Taylor
Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door. ~ Albert Camus Quotes
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door. ~ Vernon Howard
If I see a door comin’ my way, I’m knockin’ it down. And if I can’t knock down the door, I’m sliding through the window. ~ Rosie Perez
Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye. ~ Howard Hendricks
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. ~ Akhenaton
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. ~ Ivan Turgenev
Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. ~ John Barrymore
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. ~ Torquato Tasso
Don’t ever slam a door; you might want to go back. ~ Don Herold
He that bringeth a present findeth the door open. ~ Thomas Fuller
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~ Deepak Chopra
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. ~ Clarence Thomas
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. ~ Clara Barton
Reality is a sliding door. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. ~ Rufus Sewell
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. ~ Jim Rohn
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it. ~ Baltasar Gracian
So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. ~ Jesus Christ
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. ~ Milton Berle
Good clothes open all doors. ~ Thomas Fuller
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The doors of wisdom are never shut. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes
If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down. ~ Anna Delaney Peale
Look for opportunity. You can’t wait for it to knock on the door…. You might not be home. ~ Jinger Heath
Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go. ~ Catherine Marshall
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Big doors swing on little hinges. ~ W. Clement Stone
He, who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~ Victor Hugo Quotes
All doors open to courtesy. ~ Thomas Fuller
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
Our abilities and ambitions count for little, unless the door of opportunity is open to us. ~ Nicias Ballard Cooksey
You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready. ~ Bruno Mars
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. ~ Emily Dickinson
The door of opportunity won’t open unless you do some pushing. ~ Author Unknown
The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared. ~ Author Unknown
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter. ~ B.C. Forbes
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. ~ Horace
We must open the doors of opportunity. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes. ~ Jan Myrdal
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. ~ Charles L. Allen
Success is not a doorway, it’s a staircase. ~ Dottie Walters
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see. ~ Omar Khayyam