Inspiring Dance Quotes to Ignite Your Passion for Movement

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution."

- Emma Goldman

"When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance."

- Lee Ann Womack

"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer."

- Shanna LaFleur

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way."

- Wayne Dyer

"Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion."

- Martha Graham

"A dancer dances because his blood dances in his veins."

- Anna Pavlova

"I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance."

- George Balanchine

"Dancing is surely the most basic of relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience."

- Lyall Watson

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."

- Martha Graham

"Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order."

- Samuel Beckett

"The body says what words cannot."

- Martha Graham

"When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you."

- Paulo Coelho

"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work."

- Anna Pavlova

"The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion."

- Merce Cunningham

"You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive."

- Merce Cunningham

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and its music. Bodies never lie."

- Agnes de Mille

"You have to dance as if there were no one watching you, love as though you have never been hurt, sing as if there is no one listening to you, and live as if this were heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

"When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy."

- Katherine Jenkins

"You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams."

- Gene Kelly

"Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual."

- Isadora Duncan

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."

- Agnes de Mille

"Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this."

- Misty Copeland

"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"For me, to enter into motion is to enter into meditation."

- Maurice Béjart

"I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be."

- Martha Graham

"Dance is the timeless interpretation of life."

- Shah Asad Rizvi

"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."

- Ruth St. Denis

"Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience."

- Lyall Watson

"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs."

- Charles Baudelaire

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Every dance you make belongs to you. It is part of your collection. When you think of it like that, you’ll want to make your next routine the best you’ve ever made!"

- Torron-Lee Dewar

"Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter."

- Louis Horst

"I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel."

- Pina Bausch

"Follow your passion. Find that something that makes you want to work at it. Work hard. Nothing comes without hard work."

- Tomas Schramek

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair…"

- Susan Polis Schutz

"Dance is one of the most perfect forms of communication with infinite intelligence."

- Paulo Coelho

"Dance like nobody’s looking."

- Mark Twain

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes and dance."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing."

- Doris Humphrey

"Dancing has always been a passion for me, one that I will probably never be rid of."

- Darcey Bussell

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance."

- Jeanne Stein

"There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good."

- Edwin Denby

"Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!"

- Constanze Mozart

"Dance is art; paint your dream and follow it."

- Steven Thompson

"While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole."

- Hans Bos

"Dancers are the athletes of God."

- Albert Einstein

"There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them."

- Vicki Baum

"Dancing is silent poetry."

- Simonides

"Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do."

- Sylvie Guillem

"Dance every performance as if it were your last."

- Erik Bruhn

"Forget your troubles and dance."

- Bob Marley

"Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals."

- Charles Baudelaire

"Dance is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire, made legal by music."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment."

- Erol Ozan

"Kids: they dance before they learn that there is anything that isn't music."

- William Stafford

"Take more chances, dance more dances."

- James Brown

"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style."

- Fred Astaire

"Dance is a great way to express yourself."

- Darcey Bussell

"No one occupies the totality of his body as great dancers do."

- Amélie Nothomb

"Dancing is like breathing — missing a day doing either is very bad."

- Vera Ellen

"A good dancer is an educated one, so don’t abandon school."

- Deborah Bull

"All I ever needed was the music and the mirror."

- A Chorus Line

"Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing."

- Twyla Tharp

"Let us read, and let us dance; These two amusements will never hurt the world."

- Voltaire

"You can dance anywhere; that's the beauty of dance."

- Hervé Kay

"I believe that dance always contains four arts: music, choreography, painting and literature."

- George de Las Cuevas

"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."

- Ann Richards

"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero and H.P. Lovecraft

"Dance is a little insanity that does us all good."

- Edward Demby

"We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."

- Japanese Proverb

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step toward falling in love."

- Jane Austen

"Dancing is like a shower: one wrong turn and you’re in hot water!"

- Mad Magazine

"If people stand in a circle long enough, they’ll eventually begin to dance."

- George Carlin

"Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room…"

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Those who can’t dance say the music is no good."

- Jamaican Proverb

"To watch us dance is to hear our heart speak."

"This celebration of the body, a feast before our souls, offers light and joy."

"Dancing is the art of getting your feet out of the way faster than your partner can step on them."

"Dance enables you to find yourself and lose yourself at the same time."

"We can’t choose the music that life gives us, but we can choose how to dance to it."

"If you stumble, make it part of the dance."

"Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance."

"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another."