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

Happiness, Through, Often

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

Win, Succeed, Personal

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
Elayne Boosler

Long, Matter, Three

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

Time, Failure, Mistakes

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein

Knowledge, Open, Directly

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother Teresa

Next, Concerned, Neighbor

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
Bob Marley

Another, Open, Closed

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

Long, Another, Often

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler

Down, Beat, Presents

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

Great, Travel, Forward

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver

Education, Freedom, Key

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

Long, Sometimes, Late

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore

Through, Dark, Become

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn

Women, Men, Live

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

School, Prison, Closes

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Path, Build, Beat

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma Bombeck

Fire, Why, Else

God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Individual, Private

Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality is a sliding door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality, Sliding

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Path, Beaten, Mousetrap

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel

Time, Spend, Hoping

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus

Great, Thoughts, Often

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
Charlie Sheen

Future, Live, Past

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim Rohn

Good, Sometimes, Idea

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

Yourself, Give, Learn

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

Men, Home, Waiting

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw

Fire, Painting, National

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

Find, Ask, Search

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone, Whole, Front

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