Wellbeing & Lifestyle

Quotes to Inspire

• Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
  Martha Graham
  US choreographer & dancer (1894 - 1991)
• Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
  Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
  US actress & television talk show host (1954 - )
• The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word
  Mata Hari
  Dutch dancer & spy in France (1876 - 1917)
• Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
  Kate Reid
• Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
  Corita Kent
• ...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
  Henri-Frédéric Amiel
• Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
  Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, July 2003
  US actress & television talk show host (1954 - )
• If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
  Bill Lyon
• You always pass failure on the way to success.
  Mickey Rooney
  US actor (1920 - )
• A goal without a plan is just a wish.
  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  French writer (1900 - 1944)
• The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
  Cecil B. DeMille
  US movie producer (1881 - 1959)
• A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
  Kurt Lewin
  US (German-born) psychologist (1890 - 1947)
• To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
  Michael Hanson
• Hope is a waking dream.
  Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
  Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
• Hope is the thing with feathers. That perches in the soul. And sings the tune. Without the words, and never stops at all.
  Emily Dickinson
  US poet (1830 - 1886)
• Hope is only the love of life.
  Henri-Frédéric Amiel
• Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
  Carl Schurz
  US (German-born) general & politician (1829 - 1906)
• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
  Hyman Rickover
  US (Polish-born) admiral (1900 - 1986)
• Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
  Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986
• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
• There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
  Sean O'Faolain
  Irish short story author (1900 - 1991)
• I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
  Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
  US actress & television talk show host (1954 - )
• Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
  Phil Jackson
• Laughter is by definition healthy.
  Doris Lessing
• Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
  Theodore Roosevelt
  26th president of US (1858 - 1919)
• The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
  Ben Stein
• The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
  Norman Thomas
  US socialist politician (1884 - 1968)
• Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
  Wally 'Famous' Amos
  US cookie businessman (1936 - )
• Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
  Langston Coleman
• I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
  Thomas Jefferson, (attributed)
  3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
• Respect yourself and others will respect you.
  Confucius
  Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC
• If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
  Brendan Francis
• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
  Erica Jong
• Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
  Henri-Frédéric Amiel
• You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
  Rosalynn Carter
  US wife of Jimmy Carter 1946 (1927 - )
• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
  Sophia Loren
  US (Italian-born) movie actress (1934 - )
• Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
  Sydney Smith
  English essayist (1771 - 1845)
• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
  Alan Kay
• Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!
  Constanze
• You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
• There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
  Vicki Baum
• To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.
  Agnes De Mille
• Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
• It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.
  Shanna LaFleur
• To dance means to be new, to be fresh at every moment
• Compare the dancer to a flame, to any phenomenon that is visibly sustained by the intense consumption of a superior energy.
• Music must be swallowed by movement.
• It is manifestly impossible for everyone to be taught to do the same type of movement the ideal dance education is that which trains the student to find his own type of movement.
• Every emotional state tends to express itself in movement.
• The Value of an individual is not demonstrated in their title but rather in their actions
  Miss Sally
• What IS not what IF...
  Wise member of Dacorum Borough Council
• Remember where you came from Girl as you never know when you have to make a visit...
  James Welch