Taylor Swift Quotes

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

I don't expect anyone to give me anything.

Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

With AC/DC, if you've got a problem, you sort it out yourself.

One thing that was drummed into me when I was younger is that you have to make your own way in life, that you mustn't expect anyone else to support you.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Nothing is given to you.

He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. But I find this is increasingly not the case with the younger people. They do a first draft and want somebody to finish it off for them with good advice.

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.

I've spent my life supporting myself.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.