Anna Pavlova
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.Collection: Work
To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.Collection: Success
The right to happiness is fundamental.Collection: Happiness
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.Collection: Happiness
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Dancing is my gift and my life... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness.Collection: Dance
Where there is no heart there is no art.Collection: Dance
Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritualCollection: Spiritual
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.Collection: Dance
To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.Collection: Inspirational
If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.Collection: Dancing
It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.Collection: Beauty
If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.Collection: Ifs
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.Collection: Lying
Get my swan costume ready.Collection: Swans
A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.Collection: Artist
It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.Collection: Humanity
I danced from the moment I could stand.Collection: Dance
Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.Collection: Dancing
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.Collection: Success
To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.Collection: Lying
Play the last measure very softly.Collection: Play
If I can not dance, I shall die!Collection: Dance
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.Collection: Success
The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions about individual rights, the English have a natural taste for disorder.Collection: Rights
When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.Collection: Success
Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.Collection: Paddy
Once upon a time the English knew who they were.Collection: Once Upon A Time