70+ Inspirational Door Quotes to Inspire You to Be Positive

Opening Door Quotes

Opening doors means giving new opportunities in life. When you experience failure or loss of hope, these opening door quotes can give positive insight for you. 

• “Good clothes open all doors.” – Thomas Fuller

• “Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.”- Clarence Thomas

• “Open minds lead to open doors.” 

• “All doors open to courtesy.” – Thomas Fuller

• “If you aren’t opening doors for people, you are closing them!”- Marshall Goldsmith

• “Kindness is the best key to open the locked door of every heart.” – Debasish Mridha

• “The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” – Flora Whittemore

• “Books are keys that open many doors.” – James Rollins

• “Be an opener of doors.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “The door of opportunity is always open; you have to prepare to find it.” – Debasish Mridha

• “Kindness and love open the doors to one’s soul.”- Anthony D. Williams

• “The doors fly open when you’re a professional athlete.”- Dennis Rodman

• “When fortune knocks open the door.” – Proverb      

• “Weird doors open. People fall into things.”- David Sedaris

• “Lies can open up the doors to imagination.”- Lionel Suggs

• “I like to open the doors to people’s brain.”- Philippe Starck

• “A smile can open a heart quicker than a key can open a door.” – Javan

• “Doors of the future are open to those who know how to push them.”- Coluche    

• “Keep thou an open door between thy child’s life and thine own.” – Maud Lindsay

• “The more doors there are for you to open, the better they play.”- Tom Stoppard

• “With confidence, he opens the door of life presented to him.” – Paulo Coelho

• “If the doors aren’t open, just kick them in and keep walking.”- Michael Schur

• “The more doors there are for you to open, the better they play.”- Tom Stoppard

• “People can open doors for you, but you … must walkthrough.”- John C. Maxwell

• "Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self." - May Sarton                 

• “I’ll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.”- Alan Autry

• “When you open a door for others, you sometimes open doors for yourself.”- Donald L. Hicks

• “Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.” – Sally Mann                           

One Door Closes Another Opens Quotes

Have you ever heard one saying "when one door closes, another opens"?. These powerful words are made by Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.

They deeply mean the opportunity for development and growth. If need motivation after several failure or loss, these quotes are best for you.

• “When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.” – Bob Marley

• “Books open the doors that others have closed on you.” – Shannon L. Alder

• “When a door closes another door should open, but if it doesn’t then go in through the window.”

• “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 

• “When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.” – Richard Dashut

• “God knows what He is doing. Don’t be discouraged by your closed doors. If God wants a door to open, you can be certain it will open. All the forces of darkness cannot stop it.”

• “No matter when or where, always bring your ‘A’ game, because you never know when it will open doors for you.”- Simon Sinek

• “When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

• “God will open doors for you that you never expected….”- Kumari Yeswani

• “I believe in an open-door policy and encourage feedback on all experiences at the store. If you have any questions, concerns, complaints or compliments I want to hear them day or night.” – Curt Poore

• “I often need a limited space. It’s like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.”- Michael Ondaatje

• “When one door closes, God will open another one for you. Amen.”             

When One Door Closes Quotes

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Do you want to know who else has said: "when one door closes"?  There are a few other people who have written similar lines. Let's open a few more doors by reading these door quotes. 

• "Closed doors are a test of our faith. Keep moving forward, being your best, living with determination and faith. When you do, you'll see amazing changes all around you."-Joel Osteen

• "Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened to you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are."-Joel Osteen

• "Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."-Helen Keller

• "I believe that behind every closed door there is an open space."-Ping Fu

• "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

• "Nothing attracts me like a closed door."-Margaret Bourke-White

• "When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, away, when all the other ways have failed you."-Yasmin Mogahed

• "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

• "The past is a closed door."-Margaret Atwood

• "Closed doors simply means God is protecting us from having not the best."-Bo Sanchez

• "When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator."-Bonnie McFarlane

• "What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them."-Dolly Parton

• "Behind every closed door might wait for a thief of minds and a collector of souls."-Dean Koontz

• "A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds."-Percy Ross

• "You have to come to your closed doors before you come to your open doors"-Joel Osteen

• "A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors."-Antonio Porchia

• "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

Closed Door Quotes

Here we have compiled 15 door quotes to help you understand closed doors, so you won't become frustrated. These door quotes are collected from any sources.

• "When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going."- Rihanna

• "When one door closes, fortune will usually open another." - Fernando De Rojas 

• "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle 

• "Sometimes the closed door is divine intervention. Some doors if opened are destructive to your business, career, life, seed, and generation."- Belinda Enoma

• "Some doors are locked for your own good, so don’t worry about that closed door. God has something better."- Belinda Enoma

• "Sometimes we focus too long on a closed-door thinking that it is actually what we need, that we fail to see the open door."- Belinda Enoma

• "A closed-door reveals an open door."- Belinda Enoma

• "Some doors are closed by God for your own good and no matter how hard you knock, they won’t open."- Belinda Enoma

• “Just as God opens doors, God closes doors. Don’t get stuck trying to hold on to something that’s over and done.” – Dheeraj Bisani

• "If you focus too long on a closed door, you may miss that open door."- Belinda Enoma

• "That door closed to preserve your destiny."- Belinda Enoma

• "Closed doors are revelatory. You start to see opportunities you did not see before."- Belinda Enoma

• “Don’t just pray for God to open doors, pray for God to close doors in your life that need to be closed.”- Joyce Meyer

• “Sometimes God closes doors because it’s time to move forward. He knows you won’t move unless your circumstances force you. Trust the transition. God’s got you!!”