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!

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