Ballroom Dancing Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

  Moliere

  Dance, Book, Skills

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

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Healing, Ballet Class

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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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• ...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

  Moliere

  Dance, Skills, Dancing

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• Work like you don't need the money.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dance, Work, Hippie

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• Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
  Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.106, DEBOLS!LLO

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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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• 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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• 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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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Music, Dance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

  Mary Schmich

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet Class

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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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.

  Dave Barry

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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

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

  Vicki Baum

  Happiness, Happy, Dance

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• The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

  Mata Hari

  Love, Dance, Art

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