Quotes About Burning Bridges - Should You or Shouldn't You?

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.

Burning a bridge, for example, does not just impact the situation at hand. It can Impact opportunities you may never be aware of.

Never burn your bridges till you come to them.

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

Don't burn bridges, you never know when you might need them.

Burning one's bridges is never a good thing,

Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

My land is bare of chattering folk; the clouds are low along the ridges, and sweet's the air with curly smoke from all my burning bridges.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Great men burn bridges before they come to them.

He who can not forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.

Stop telling me not to burn bridges. Some bridges are meant to be burned; some roads are never meant to be traveled again.

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.

You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it -- I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.

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.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

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

There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

I demolish my bridges behind me -- then there is no choice but forward.

Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same.

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

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

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

It doesn't help me to burn bridges, but I'm not going to sit back and be given blame when I don't deserve it.

I've burned all my bridges for the sake of getting as near as I can to the truth. And after years of searching for the truth, you find that that's all you can bear. The truth and nothing but the truth.

May the bridges I burn light the way.

When leaders choose to burn bridges instead of build them, they sacrifice their ability to do their jobs.

Never burn bridges. If it's a faulty bridge then close it off and let it fall on its own.

If the bridge to your past is burned behind you, then you have no choice but to travel the path into a successful future.

You know, the thing about burned bridges is, they can be rebuilt.

I thank God I've never burned no bridges with nobody, and when it's time for me to call in my favors, they're coming.

Commitment means burning all bridges behind you.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.