Anna Pavlova Quotes

• Dancing is my gift and my life... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Spiritual, Expression

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• God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

  Anna Pavlova

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Where there is no heart there is no art.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Art, Heart

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• Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

  Anna Pavlova

  Spiritual, Expression, Emotion

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• Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

  Anna Pavlova

  Inspirational, Success, Goal

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• If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dancing, Said, If I Could

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• 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

  Success, Hard Work, Initiative

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• It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

  Anna Pavlova

  Beauty, Nerves, Useless

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• If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

  Anna Pavlova

  Ifs, I Can

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• To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

  Anna Pavlova

  Lying, Accomplishment, Words Of Wisdom

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• Get my swan costume ready.

  Anna Pavlova

  Swans, Ballet, Dying

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• The right to happiness is fundamental.

  Anna Pavlova

  Happiness, Happy, Being Happy

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• A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

  Anna Pavlova

  Artist, Should Have, Secret

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• It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

  Anna Pavlova

  Humanity, Progress, Tangible

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• Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dancing, Ballet, Want

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• I danced from the moment I could stand.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Moments

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• When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

  Anna Pavlova

  Love, Children, Butterfly

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• What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

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  Success, Women, Exactly Is

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• To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

  Anna Pavlova

  Lying, Goal, Effort

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• Play the last measure very softly.

  Anna Pavlova

  Play, Lasts

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• If I can not dance, I shall die!

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Dancing, Can Not

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• To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

  Anna Pavlova

  Success, Hard Work, Persistence

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• Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

  Anna Pavlova

  Giving, Wish, Theatre

  Quoted in A H Franks (ed) Pavlova: A Biography,'Pages of My Life' (1956).

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• The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.

  Anna Pavlova

  Rights, English History, Looks

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