Anna Pavlova famous quotes

07-15-2025

The right to happiness is fundamental.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Happy #Fundamentals
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Life #Motivational #Dance
To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Inspirational #Success #Goal
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
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Dance #Technique #Forget
Where there is no heart there is no art.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Dance #Art #Heart
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Success #Secret #Halt
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
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.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Success #Feelings #Satisfaction
To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Lying #Goal #Effort
Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Paddy #Jocks #Scots
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 #Looks #Taste
Once upon a time the English knew who they were.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Once Upon A Time
When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Success #Children
Play the last measure very softly.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Play #Lasts
If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Dancing #Said
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
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 #Finding Happiness
If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.
-- Anna Pavlova
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
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
Get my swan costume ready.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Swans #Dying #Costumes
I danced from the moment I could stand.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Dance #Moments
If I can not dance, I shall die!
-- Anna Pavlova

#Dance #Can Not
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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