"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."
- Martha Graham
Creativity
"Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion."
- Martha Graham
Belief in Self
"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes and dance."
- Oprah Winfrey
Joy
"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful."
- Agnes De Mille
Empowerment
"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
Awareness
"When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you."
- Paulo Coelho
Self-awareness
"Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion."
- Agnes de Mille
Ambition
"You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams."
- Gene Kelly
Joy
"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
Contentment
"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 single fleeting moment when you feel alive."
- Merce Cunningham
Contentment
"Every time I dance, I’m trying to prove myself to myself."
- Misty Copeland
Belief in Self
"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."
- Ruth St. Denis
Connection to Earth
"The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion."
- Merce Cunningham
Determination
"Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you."
- Judith Jamison
Creativity
"There’s nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks."
- Twyla Tharp
Courage
"To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success."
- Anna Pavlova
Goals
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
- Arianna Huffington
Personal Growth
"The body says what words cannot."
- Martha Graham
Creativity
"Do it big, do it right, and do it with style."
- Fred Astaire
Ambition
"There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them."
- Vicki Baum
Happiness
"Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!"
- Constanze Mozart
Joy
"I always work hard to find a way to disconnect from the thinking until it becomes second nature to me because that’s where you find the best moments. Dancing is like that for me all the time. It makes me feel free."
- Jennifer Lopez
Inner Peace
"Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order."
- Samuel Beckett
Creativity
"No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius."
- Anna Pavlova
Hard Work
"Forget your troubles and dance."
- Bob Marley
Happiness
"Dance and you’ll feel better."
- James Brown
Motivation
"To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success."
- Anna Pavlova
Goals
"Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina."
- Misty Copeland
Perseverance
"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
Hard Work
"Dance every performance as if it were your last."
- Erik Bruhn
Courage
"Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain."
- Martha Graham
Empathy
"Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual."
- Anna Pavlova
Empathy
"You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you."
- Isadora Duncan
Self-confidence
"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. It is not for unsteady souls."
- Merce Cunningham
Ambition
"I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday."
- Misty Copeland
Personal Growth
"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. It’s the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy."
- Jacques d’Amboise
Connection to Earth
"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."
- Martha Graham
Ambition
"The moment is everything. Don’t think about tomorrow; don’t think about yesterday: think about exactly what you’re doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it."
- Wendy Whelan
Presence
"I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance."
- George Balanchine
Ambition
"Follow your passion. Find that something that makes you want to work at it. Work hard. Nothing comes without hard work."
- Tomas Schramek
Determination
"In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present."
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Spirituality
"Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Awareness
"Dancers are the athletes of God."
- Albert Einstein
Strength
"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
Creativity
"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
Empowerment
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
"Dance is art; paint your dream and follow it."
- Steven Thompson
Creativity
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Contentment
"When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance."
- Lee Ann Womack
Joy
"If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution."
- Emma Goldman
Courage
"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."
- Oprah Winfrey
Joy
"If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it"
- Isadora Duncan
Philosophy
"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides
Creativity
"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing."
- James Brown
Healing
"Even today when I rehearse, I give it everything that I’ve got. If I’m in a performance and the lights go out, I glow in the dark. When you’re working before an audience, you have to make them feel like they can touch you. That’s the dancer within, reaching out."
- Mitzi Gaynor
Presence
"Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing."
- Twyla Tharp
Creativity
"When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy."
- Katherine Jenkins
Happiness
"Some of my happiest moments have been dancing."
- Claire Danes
Happiness
"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."
- John Dryden
Creativity
"Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on."
- Michael Jackson
Transformation
"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."
- Mata Hari
Creativity
"Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul."
- Alexander Pushkin
Spirituality
"Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music."
- Pierce Brosnan
Connection to Earth
"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair…"
- Susan polis Schutz
Joy
"There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good."
- Edwin Denby
Joy
"If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Aspirations
"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance."
- Jeanne Stein
Contentment
"I’m going to tap until I can’t – I’ll be so old, all I can do is walk out from the wings to stage centre. But I’ll be there."
- Gregory Hines
Perseverance
"Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance."
- Alarmel Valli
Growth
"Why walk when you can dance?"
- Ellen Van Dam
Joy
"I have no desire to prove anything by dancing…I just dance."
- Fred Astaire
Self-confidence
"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and its music. Bodies never lie."
- Agnes de Mille
Connection to Earth
"Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter."
- Louis Horst
Self-awareness
"Any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all."
- Lynda Barr
Contentment
"Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment."
- Erol Ozan
Creativity
"Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art."
- Margot Fonteyn
Creativity
"Dance is the timeless interpretation of life."
- Shah Asad Rizvi
Philosophy
"Every morning I am a beginner."
- Hanya Holm
New Beginnings
"Dance is a language beyond words, expressing that for which we have no words."
- Jennifer De Leon
Creativity
"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
Creativity
"Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Self-awareness
"Dancers are made, not born."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Personal Growth
"When I dance, I escape the present and become one with my soul."
- Normani Kordei
Inner Peace
"Keep proving them wrong."
- Michaela DePrince
Determination
"I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself."
- Merce Cunningham
Change
"I’m trying to make the perfect dance, that’s what drives me."
- Trisha Brown
Ambition
"Dancers are both athletes and artists."
- Margot Fonteyn
Balance
"Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play."
- Agnes de Mille
Joy
"Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual."
- Isadora Duncan
Connection to Earth
"Daily dance uplifts the soul to spiritual realms."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Spirituality
"Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer."
- Sylvie Guillem
Integrity
"Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that."
- Merce Cunningham
Creativity
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
- Agnes de Mille
Connection to Earth
"I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space."
- Ruth St. Denis
Inner Peace
"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer."
- Shanna LaFleur
Ambition
"You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me."
- Katherine Dunham
Aspirations
"The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice."
- Pearl Primus
Imagination
"There is something so rewarding about dancing. It’s almost spiritual – you let loose, you feel free, you get endorphins from the exercise."
- Julianne Hough
Happiness
"Feet’s job is to walk, but their passion is dancing."
- Priyanshu Singh
Inspiration
"Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals."
- Charles Baudelaire
Awareness
"Dance like nobody’s looking."
- Mark Twain
Joy
"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
Creativity
"Dancing has always been a passion for me, one that I will probably never be rid of."
- Darcey Bussell
Ambition
"I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be."
- Martha Graham
Self-awareness
"I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel."
- Pina Bausch
Courage
"Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out."
- Agnes de Mille
Personal Growth
"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
Creativity
"Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this."
- Misty Copeland
Belief in Self
"To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak."
- Hopi Indian Saying
Connection to Earth
"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
- Jane Austen
Love
"The job of feet is walking, but their hobby is dancing."
- Amit Kalantri
Inspiration
"Dance is a great way to express yourself."
- Darcey Bussell
Self-awareness
"For me, purity of movement wasn’t enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind."
- Rudolf Nureyev
Creativity
"Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation."
- Martha Graham
Courage
"Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination."
- Doris Humphrey
Creativity
"You don’t just become a success overnight."
- Darcey Bussell
Success
"This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn’t want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable."
- Fred Astaire
Perseverance
"Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they’re also artists."
- Neve Campbell
Balance
"Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do."
- Sylvie Guillem
Personal Growth
"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
Ambition
"Hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon."
- Edward Lear
Joy
"All I ever needed was the music and the mirror."
- A Chorus Line
Joy
"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."
- Ann Richards
Joy
"Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room…"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Joy
"We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."
- Japanese Proverb
Joy
"Dance is a little insanity that does us all good."
- Edward Demby
Joy
"Dancing is like breathing — missing a day doing either is very bad."
- Vera Ellen
Health
"He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor."
- Hindu proverb
Responsibility
"Dancing is like a shower: one wrong turn and you’re in hot water!"
- Mad Magazine
Joy
"Bleeding feet will bond us."
- Liza Minelli
Adversity
"The spine is the tree of life. Respect it."
- Martha Graham
Health
"Those who can’t dance say the music is no good."
- Jamaican Proverb
Awareness
"When your knowledge increases over time, you learn to dance in your mind."
- Debasish Mridha
Learning
"If people stand in a circle long enough, they’ll eventually begin to dance."
- George Carlin
Connection to Earth
"A good dancer is an educated one, so don’t abandon school."
- Deborah Bull
Education
"Your fragility is also your strength."
- Pina Bausch
Strength
"Where there is no heart there is no art."
- Anna Pavlova
Creativity
"If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance."
- Chuck Berry
Empowerment
"Get up off of that thing. Dance and you’ll feel better."
- James Brown
Motivation
"Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils."
- Michaela Deprince
Leadership
"Trust me, you can dance."
- Vodka
Motivation
"You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
- Joker
Adaptation
"We can’t choose the music that life gives us, but we can choose how to dance to it."
Adaptation
"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another."
Connection to Earth
"Dancing is the art of getting your feet out of the way faster than your partner can step on them."
Adaptation
"Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance."
Adaptation
"Don’t let people discourage you. Just fluff out your tutu and dance away."
Courage
"I dance because there’s no greater feeling in the world than moving a piece of music and letting the rest of the world disappear."
Happiness
"Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong."
Motivation
"Dance enables you to find yourself and yourself at the same time."
- Unknown
Self-awareness
"’One more time’ is always a lie."
- Unknown
Motivation
"When you feel like quitting, think about why you started."
- Unknown
Motivation
"One who expresses one’s self through dance is a dancer. One who expresses one’s self through a dancer is a dance teacher."
- Unknown
Philosophy
"What seems so hard now will someday be your warm up."
- Unknown
Motivation
"Behind every dancer who believes in themselves is a teacher who believed in them first."
- Unknown
Empowerment
"Dance lightly with life."
Joy
"Friends that dance together, stay together."
- Unknown
Relationships
"An amazing dance teacher is hard to find difficult to part with & impossible to forget."
- Unknown
Gratitude
"A dance teacher helps her students find the song in their heart the beat in their feet and a passion for life."
- Unknown
Empowerment
"No standing. Only dancing."
Joy