Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
—Martha Graham (1894–1991) American Choreographer
He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The devil dances in empty pockets.
—English Proverb
He who has no shoes dances in his socks.
—German Proverb
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
—Unknown
You cannot dance well on only one leg.
—African Proverb
I dance to the tune that is played.
—Spanish Proverb
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 (1905–93) American Dancer, Choreographer
How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
—Unknown
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
It’s a sin to be poor! He wasn’t referring to moral turpitude, but rather to “the frustration of potentiality”. He believed and taught that, when we establish ourselves in the consciousness of God, the whole universe moves to flow into us with its abundance of life and substance. This is obviously what Jesus had in mind when he said, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well”.
—Unknown
A smart witch can also dance without a broomstick.
—German Proverb
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
—Martha Graham (1894–1991) American Choreographer
Dancers are the athletes of God.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Believe me, you can have anything you want—and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter, Writer
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
He who has an egg in his pocket does not dance.
—African Proverb
An old cat will never learn to dance.
—Moroccan Proverb
A bad dancer always has trouble with his balls.
—Russian Proverb
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
—Dave Barry (b.1947) American Humorist, Columnist
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
—T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) American-born British Poet, Dramatist, Literary Critic
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
—African Proverb
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made—when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt—it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.
—Jane Austen (1775–1817) English Novelist
Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty.
—Indian Proverb
All are not merry that dance lightly.
—English Proverb
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
—Miguel Angel Ruiz (b.1952) Mexican Spiritualist Author
The bear dances but the tamer collects the money.
—Russian Proverb
Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
—Martha Graham (1894–1991) American Choreographer
Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than “you” ever could by conscious thought. “You” supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.
—Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer
Out of abundance and still abundance remained.
—The Upanishads Sacred Books of Hinduism
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
—Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) American Dancer, Choreographer
The rich man never dances badly.
—African Proverb
On with the dance, let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there’s a dance to dance or any joy to unconfine.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
You can be anything you want to be, if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
—Japanese Proverb
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
—W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist
Only chained bears dance.
—Russian Proverb
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish Novelist, Playwright
When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant—in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
The goal of truly rich people is to have massive wealth and abundance.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
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 (1859–1939) British Sexologist, Physician, Social Reformer
Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.
—Indian Proverb
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
—Agnes de Mille (1905–93) American Dancer, Choreographer
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mother’s womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite.
—Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) American Dancer, Choreographer
When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?
—Julius Nyerere (1922–99) Tanzanian Statesman
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
—Martha Graham (1894–1991) American Choreographer
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
—American Indian Proverb