Short Dance Quotes:

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

- Vicki Baum

topic: Happiness, Dance, Dancing, Homecoming, Inspirational Dance

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

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

- Constanze Mozart

topic: Dream, Art, Communication, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

- Jacques d'Amboise

topic: Dance, Sadness, Expression, Motivational Dance, Dance Is Life

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

- Shirley MacLaine

topic: Dance, Art, Soul, Just Dance, Art Dance

Dance... enjoy each step along the way.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Catholic, Way, Steps, Motivational Dance, Dance Steps

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

topic: Dream, Art, Laughter, Inspirational Dance, Modern Dance

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspirational, Life, Music, Music And Life, Inspirational Dance

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

- George C. Wolfe

source: George C. Wolfe, Chic Street Man, Zora Neale Hurston (1991). “Two”

topic: Dance, Dancing, Madness, Dancers Inspiration, Dance Music

The body says what words cannot.

- Martha Graham

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

topic: Dance, Body, Inspirational Dance, Self Injury, Choreographers

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

- Mata Hari

topic: Dance, Movement, Courtesans, Inspirational Dance, Dance Class

Dance for yourself. If someone else understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.

- Louis Horst

topic: Dance, Interesting, Matter, Motivational Dance, Dance Life

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

- Martha Graham

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

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

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Life, Dance, Thinking, Inspirational Dance, Tap Dancers

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

- Martha Graham

topic: Motivational, Dance, Song, Song And Dance, Dance Is Life

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

- Pierce Brosnan

topic: Dance, Love Is, Dancing, Dance Love, Just Dance

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

topic: Life, Success, Dance, Dance Party, Drinking Party

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

- Martha Graham

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

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Art, Inspirational Dance, Language Acquisition

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Stars, Heart, Men, Homecoming, Inviting

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

- Rumi

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Spiritual, Sufi Mystic, Sufi Wisdom

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

- John Dryden

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

topic: Dance, Feet, Dancing, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Graduation, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

- William James

topic: Humor, Dancing, Common Sense, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too...

- Merce Cunningham

topic: Dance, Dancing, Discipline, Inspirational Dance, Ballet Class

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

- James Howe

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

topic: Dance, Dirty, Life Is Short, Dance Is Life, Dirty Dishes

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

- Martha Graham

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

topic: Dance, Passion, Dancing, Nobody Cares, Inspirational Dance

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Dance, Dancing, Mystery, Dancers Inspiration, Pointe

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Music, Dance, Dancing, Humour And Laughter, Motivational Dance

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Music, Dance, Dancing, Dance Class, Pointe

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

- W. H. Auden

topic: Dance, Stars, Rafters, Homecoming, Inviting

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

topic: Dance, Art, Positivity, Just Dance, Art Dance

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

- Agnes de Mille

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

topic: Dance, Women, Lying, Inspirational Dance, Never Lie

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Witty, Inspirational Dance, Modern Dance

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Depression, Dance, Courage, Inspirational Dance, Dark Night Of The Soul

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

- Mary Schmich

source: 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

topic: Dance, Rooms, Living Room, Motivational Dance, Tap Dancers

Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

- Arlene Croce

source: Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”

topic: Dance, Eye, Mind, Choreography, Fuse

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance

- George Balanchine

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Dance, Art, Dance Class, Dancers Inspiration

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

- George Balanchine

topic: Dance, Piano, Play, Motivational Dance, Tap Dancers

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Dance, Sexy, Expression, Wordplay, Inspirational Dance

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

- Alan Watts

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

topic: Motivational, Change, Moving On, Adaptability, Eye Opening

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

- Ruth St. Denis

topic: Dance, Communication, Soul, Inspirational Dance, Dancers Inspiration

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Dance, Philosophy, Believe, Inspirational Dance, Classical Dance

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

- Dave Barry

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

topic: Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing, Homecoming, Nobody Cares

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

- Maurice Bejart

topic: Dance, Anecdotes, Explanation, Inspirational Dance, Sensations

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

- Martha Graham

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

topic: Dance, Lying, Weather, Barometer, Never Lie

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...

- Susan Polis Schutz

topic: Dance, Flower, Hair, Spring Flowers, Motivational Dance

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Inspirational, Life, Dance, Motivational Dance, Tap Dancers

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

topic: Beautiful, Dance, Powerful, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance