Inspirational Dance Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 05, 2011

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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  The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

  James Brown

  Happiness, Dance, Adversity

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  Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

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• A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

  William James

  Dance, Humor, Common Sense

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• We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

  Albert Einstein

  Dance, Dream, Art

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  Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

  Alvin Ailey

  Inspirational, Dance, Believe

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• The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Dance, Love Yourself

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• You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Inspiring, Dance

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet Class, Play

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• We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Dancing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

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• I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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

  Louis Horst

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspiring, Dance, Sports

  "Dance Like There’s Nobody Watching" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2016.

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• Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

  Judith Jamison

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

  Judith Jamison

  Dance, Giving, People

  womenSports magazine, September 1975.

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  Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

  Satchel Paige

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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  Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Lying, Weather

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

  Bette Midler

  Dance, Fear, Philosophy

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• Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

  James Howe

  Dance, Dirty, Life Is Short

  James Howe (2005). “Totally Joe”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

  George Sava

  Dance, Men, Expression

  "This thing called ballet".

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• I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Believe, Practice

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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