The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. -Margot Fonteyn

 

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Margot Fonteyn quotes in our collection. Margot Fonteyn is known for saying 'The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Margot Fonteyn

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Margot Fonteyn

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Margot Fonteyn

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Margot Fonteyn