Ballroom Dance Quotes

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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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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Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Martha Graham

Inspirational, Dance, Art

"Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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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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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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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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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

Dance, Reading, Two

"The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version". Volume 6,

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

Vicki Baum

Happiness, Happy, Dance

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

Martha Graham

Dance, Passion, Ballet Class

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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

Inspirational, Beautiful, Dance

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Dance... enjoy each step along the way.

Wayne Dyer

Karma, Dance, Dancing

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To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Lord Byron

Dance, Aquarius, Feet

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.60, Sheba Blake Publishing

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It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

Anton du Beke

Years, Dancing, Dancer

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

Agnes de Mille

Dance, Lying, Women

Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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

Louis Horst

Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Samuel Beckett

Life, Dance, Thinking

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

Lord Byron

Life, Success, Dance

George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

Martha Graham

Dance, Mean, Discipline

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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Christopher Morley

Girl, Dance, Men

Kitty Foyle ch. 11 (1939)

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Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

Martha Graham

Dance, Healing, Ballet Class

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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Dave Barry

Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

William Shakespeare

Love, Inspirational, Dance

'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 134

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