Burn Your Bridges Quotes

#1. The first rule of a successful parasite? Myxoma's success in Australia suggests something different from that nugget of conventional wisdom I mentioned above. It's not Don't kill your host. It's Don't burn your bridges until after you've crossed them.

David Quammen

#2. Yes, burn your bridges.

Bette Davis

#3. Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

#4. Never burn your bridges till you come to them.

Clayton Rawson

#5. Some say, don't burn your bridges.

I say, if necessary,
let the kerosene
kiss it on the lips,

and watch it
turn to ash.

There's always more than one way
to cross the water.

Rudy Francisco

#6. You don't want to burn any bridges, but you also want to make sure you leave your character bridges wide open and you're never seen as one particular thing, or that's who you'll be, unfortunately, for the rest of your career.

Amanda Schull

#7. Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.

Ai Weiwei

#8. Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn.

Drake

#9. It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

Fiorello LaGuardia

#10. One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Oprah Winfrey

#11. Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Sigourney Weaver

#12. I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Dinah Shore

#13. My policy has always been to burn my bridges behind me. My face is always set toward the future. If I make a mistake it is fatal. When I am flung back I fall all the way back - to the very bottom. My one safeguard is my resiliency. So far I have always bounced back.

Henry Miller

#14. Stop telling me not to burn bridges. Some bridges are meant to be burnt, some roads are never meant to be traveled again.

Steve Maraboli

#15. When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

Sun Tzu

#16. The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it!

Mooji

#17. We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard

#18. You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.

Terry Gilliam

#19. Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.

Aiden Wilson Tozer