Dance is the most popular form of physical activity in modern society. It is an expression of our emotions and helps us to enjoy life more.
Dance has been a part of human culture since prehistoric times. People dancing have always been found in different cultures and societies, even before they had written language or a common language.
Dance is a culture that is closely related to human beings. It connects people with their thoughts and emotions. Most people join the dance as a hobby, and in some cases, it is their profession.
Dance is an art that people of all ages can do. Dancers learn how to express themselves through their dance, which inspires them to express themselves in other areas of their lives. A little learning goes a long way, as the importance of dance has been recognized by many different cultures throughout history. Dance has also historically helped people relieve stress and depression and find happiness.
Here are 125 inspiring Dance quotes to get you motivated for dancing
“Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.” – Simon Fowler
“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.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
“Dance from your heart and let your passion shine through.” – The Dance Mum
“Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn’t seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance.” ― Whitney Scott
“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.” – Mata Hari
“When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true.” – Blake Lively
“We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.” ― Ilyas Kassam
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.” – Martha Graham
“People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.” ― Martha Graham
“For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought” ― Søren Kierkegaard
“The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations.” – Maurice Bjart
“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?” ― Michael Jackson
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.” ― Mikhail Baryshnikov
“Dance is a great way to express yourself.” – Darcey Bussell
“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.” ― Shah Asad Rizvi
“Dancing – that’s really what I do at parties. I dance and I hang out with friends. That’s my partying.” – Rebecca Black
“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” – Carl Sandburg
“If you believe that your best years are behind you, you’ve guaranteed they are; I’m going to dance into that good night, with the oldies turned up loud.” – Gina Barreca
“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.” ― Kamand Kojouri
“The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.” – James Brown
“We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too.” – Kamand Kojouri
“If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That’s what rock and roll is all about.” – Chuck Berry
“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.” ― Oprah Winfrey
“Any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.” ― Lynda Barr
“He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.” – Hindu Proverb
“What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.” – Twyla Tharp
“It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.” ― Xiaolu Guo
“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.” ― Martha Graham
“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” – Charles Baudelaire
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” ― Eckhart Tolle
“I learned to appreciate repetition. That’s why I can dance. It’s how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.” – Channing Tatum
“Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.” – Margaret Mead
“Daily dance uplifts the soul to spiritual realms.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
“You’re terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.” – Karen Kain
“Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they’re also artists.” – Neve Campbell
“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” – Satchel Paige
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.” – Rumi
“Any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.” – Lynda Barr
“Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can’t name the tune.” ― Deepak Chopra
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Live like you’ll die tomorrow, work like you don’t need the money, and dance like nobody’s watching.” – Bob Fosse
“Every time I dance, I’m trying to prove myself to myself.” – Misty Copeland
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan W. Watts
“Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.” ― Shah Asad Rizvi
“Disco’s are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don’t.” ― David Mitchell
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” ― Martha Graham
“Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.” ― Amit Ray
“The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.” – James Gates Percival
“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.” – Dave Barry
“It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You’ll probably get kicked in the face.” ― Dan Pearce
“Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.” – Mason Cooley
“This is why the idea of finding love across the dance floor endures – symbolizing that, when we know the true rhythm of our heart, we know the other.” ― Alexandra Katehakis
“The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.” – Chelsea Leyland
“Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.” – Fred Astaire
“Before dance came into my life, I don’t really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.” – Misty Copeland
“Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let’s dance.” ― James Howe
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.” – Rudolf Nureyev
“Dancing is like – it’s another way of communicating, no?” – Mauricio Macri
“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.” ― Shah Asad Rizvi
Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” – Steve Maraboli
“When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true.” – Blake Lively
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“What’s the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful. It taunts you.” – Steve Wynn
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” – Muhammad Ali
“Some of my happiest moments have been dancing.” – Claire Danes
“Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.” – Martha Graham
“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.” – Amit Kalantri
“I’m attracted to soccer’s capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.” – Eduardo Galeano
“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.” – William Butler Yeats
“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.” – Jaques D’Ambroise
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” – Emma Goldman
“Dance has always been the center of who I am. It has given me the inspiration to help other people find a hobby, passion, and activity that fulfills them. It also taught me some of the many skills I need as an entrepreneur: a hard work ethic that takes practice to master and the confidence to persevere through any challenges.” – Payal Kadakia
“Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.” – John Wesley Powell
“Dance is like life, it exists as you’re flitting through it, and when it’s over, it’s done.” – Jerome Robbins
“You live as long as you dance.” – Rudolf Nureyev
“Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.” – Confucius
“When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.” – Vera Wang
“Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room.” – John Schneider
“Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.” – Ted Shawn
“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
“When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.” – Katherine Jenkins
“Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.” – Alvin Ailey
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.” – Shah Asad Rizvi
“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion.” – Scott Nilsson
“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.” – Martha Graham
“The first dance is the worst dance; the last dance is the best dance! All the roads of persistent practice lead to the Land of Perfection!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.” – Mikhail Baryshnikov
“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” – Wayne Dyer
“Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.” – Shah Asad Rizvi
“Dance every performance as if it were your last.” – Erik Bruhn
“If a man doesn’t know how to dance he doesn’t know how to make love, there I said it!” – Craig Ferguson
“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.” – Khalil Gibran
“Sing like no one’s is listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― Mark Twain
“Dancing – however you do it, even if it’s in your living room – is a great workout.” – Ciara
“From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.” – Issey Miyake
“Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.” – Alvin Ailey
“Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.” – Normani Kordei
“If you’ve got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.” – Melody Carstairs
“Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.” – Groucho Marx
“Dancing is my obsession. My life.” – Mikhail Baryshnikov
“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” – Khalil Gibran
“Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.” – Neil Gaiman
“Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” – Steve Maraboli
“There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.” – Edwin Denby
“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” – Charles Baudelaire
“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
“Dance is not endangered – it will always find a way to express itself.” – Judith Jamison
“Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.” – Henry Fielding
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.” – Martha Graham
“When people start dancing, they dance like they don’t know they are doing it.” – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.” – Ruth St. Denis
“Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force.” – Suzanne Brockmann
“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.” – Erol Ozan
“Music is an expression of individuality; it’s how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there – express it – whether it’s sculpture, dance or singing.” – David Sanborn “Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing.” – Twyla Tharp
