Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Anna Pavlova

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian dancer Anna Pavlova.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Anna Pavlovna Pavlova, born Anna Matveyevna Pavlova, was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Pavlova is most recognized for her creation of the role of The Dying Swan and, with her own company, became the first ballerina to tour around the world, including performances in South America, India and Australia.

Russian - Dancer | January 31, 1882 - January 23, 1931

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The right to happiness is fundamental.

Anna Pavlova

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Anna Pavlova

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.

Anna Pavlova

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Pavlova

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Pavlova

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Anna Pavlova

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

Anna Pavlova

I danced from the moment I could stand.

Anna Pavlova

Play the last measure very softly.

Anna Pavlova

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.

Anna Pavlova

When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

Anna Pavlova

If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

Anna Pavlova

If I can not dance, I shall die!

Anna Pavlova

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.

Anna Pavlova

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.

Anna Pavlova

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.

Anna Pavlova

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

Anna Pavlova

To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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.

Anna Pavlova

Where there is no heart there is no art.

Anna Pavlova