Ballet Quotes

A Ballet Quote Collection Made to Inspire

ballet quotesWe all need inspiration from time-to-time, and that’s exactly what BalletHub’s huge collection of ballet quotes is all about!  Whether you’re looking for a motivational quote to adopt for your day at work or a wise quote to adopt for your week of ballet classes, you can find the best, hand picked ballet quotes right here on ballethub.com.

You’ll notice that most of the ballet quotes below aren’t actually from ballet dancers, but mostly from other significant people of past and present.  But, all of these quotes can be perfectly applied in some form to ballet through inspiration, wisdom, motivation and determination!

Train like a beast, look like a beauty.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Do not count the days; make the days count.
Quantity is what you count, quality is what you count on.
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall never be bent out of shape.
Where can ballet take you today?
Light tomorrow with today.
You've got to have a dream, if you want to have a dream come true.
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Life without ballet would be pointeless.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
Nothing worth having comes easy.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday, is the hope of today, and the reality of tomorrow.
Let your person define your dance, not your dance define your person.
It takes an athlete to dance, but it takes an artist to be a dancer.
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.
Work Hard. Stay Humble.
In order to succeed, we must first believe we can.
Why is the studio always so cold?
Work hard and be proud of what you achieve.
Nothing will work unless you do.
To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet.
No bird soars too high if she soars with her own wings.
Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: believing in yourself.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
5-6-7-8, numbers that a dancer lives by.
I believe in pink.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
We work to become, not to acquire.
Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise.
Which tutu are you?
Dance is the only art in which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Life is a dance from one stage, to the next.
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Work harder than you did yesterday.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.
"My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet."
Children need models rather than critics.
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
How badly you want something dictates how hard you'll work at it.
Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion.
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
All dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
If your dream requires patience, give it.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
I can do anything if I'm in a tutu.
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.