collect quotes that motivate me

“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
- Colette

Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. ~Brian Doson

“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”
- Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

“If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.”
- John Gardner

“Why do so many…settle for so little? I don’t understand why they’re not greedy for what’s inside them.”-Jack Gilbert

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Whether you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
- Henry Ford

“A man doesn’t learn to understand anything unless he loves it.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(I wasted quite a few years doing things I hated…job wise).

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
Martha Graham, 1893-1992

“When you perform, you are out of yourself – larger, more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes, heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.”
Agnes De Mille

“Remember why it is you started doing this dance in the first place. It has never been nor will it ever be about hitting a break, doing that certain step everyone else is doing, syncopating, or spinning faster and harder than anyone else. The reason we all got into this…..was to have fun, meet new friends and have a wonderful tactile ‘conversation’ on the dance floor. Have a good time out there. Don’t take it so seriously.”
Mario Robau, Jr.

“Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.”
Martha Graham, 1893-1992

“I don’t want people who WANT to dance, I want people who HAVE to dance.”
George Balanchine, 1904-1993

“The real reason I dance is because I want to explode.”
Bill Evans