Taylor Swift Quotes

I'm not driven by being understood.

I don't really focus on other people's expectations of me. I only care what my own expectations are.

I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was.

To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

In the past there were two things that motivated me then: independence, and passion about what I was doing. And those are still the things that motivate me now. I still have that passion for creating a product. And I will never be dependent on a man. I will never be dependent on a husband or a boyfriend or a father. That's one thing that's really important to me.

Put your future in good hands. Your own.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

Strength and independence are always something that I'm drawn to in all my characters, no matter how different they are from one another.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

All I've ever needed is myself.

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.