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.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

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

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

The right to happiness is fundamental.

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

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

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

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.

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.

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

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

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

Get my swan costume ready.

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

Play the last measure very softly.

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.

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.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

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