An open-door policy

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

~John Barrymore, actor

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

~William Blake, poet and printer

A small key opens big doors.

~Turkish proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

~Chinese proverb

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, author

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

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home. I'm tired.

~Mae West

Men shut their doors against the setting sun.

~William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Timon of Athens

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

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door, and then when the door is opened, not go inside.

~William Saroyan

Shut the door, not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

~Mark Twain

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

~Vernon Howard, spiritual teacher and author

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we lead.

~Flora Whittemore, writer

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Be an opener of doors.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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