Knocking On Doors Quotes

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

Consider Brazilian cosmetics brand Natura, which deploys a direct-sales force of more than 718,000. By knocking on doors, it has established a vibrant network of brand supporters.

Sometimes it wasn’t even when we were knocking on doors, it would be, the phone would ring and somebody would say, “God told me to do this,” and it would be exactly the perfect timing to help us with the next step of the filmmaking.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it’s a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they’re knocking on doors that are not open.

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

I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn’t agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.

The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn’t even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.

Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens