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!

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