Inspirational Dance Quotes to Get You Dancing

1. “There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.” — Vicki Baum

2. “Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!” — Constanze Mozart

3. “The body says what words cannot.” — Martha Graham

4. “Dancing is the poetry of the foot.” — John Dryden

5. “The job of feet is walking, but their hobby is dancing.” — Amit Kalantri

6. “The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.” — Merce Cunningham

7. “To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.” — Indian Proverb

8. “Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.” — Fred Astaire

9. “He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.” — Hindu Proverb

10. “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.” — Jane Austen

11. “Dancing is silent poetry.” — Simonides

12. “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.” — Samuel Beckett

13. “When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.” — Paulo Coelho

14. “Dance every performance as if it were your last.” — Erik Bruhn

15. “Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.” — Louis Horst
16. “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, American ballet dancer and choreographer

17. “You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls.” — Merce Cunningham, modern dance choreographer

18. “The truest expression of a people is in its dance and its music. Bodies never lie.” — Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer

19. “Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.” — Michael Jackson, pop singer and dancer

20. “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-American dancer and choreographer

21. “I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday.” — Misty Copeland, first African American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre

22. “Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you.” — Judith Jamison, American dancer and choreographer

23. “Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art.” — Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina

24. “The moment is everything. Don’t think about tomorrow; don’t think about yesterday: think about exactly what you’re doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.” — Wendy Whelan, American ballet dancer

25. “You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.” — Isadora Duncan, American dancer known as the “Mother of Modern Dance”