Almost every celebrity made 2014 a very successful one, but no one can seems to defeat “Shake It Off” star Taylor Swift. From countless recognitions from her albums including 1989, magazine covers, and gift-giving, she rocks 2014.
2014 was indeed her year and with her motivational quotes for every aspect of life, she bought the year perfectly! Here are 13 Taylor-inspired quotes you need to hear:
1. On popularity:
“You’ll never really feel like you’re part of the ‘in’ crowd, but growing up means that matters to you less and less every day.”
2. On camaraderie:
“You should not be threatened by women who are pretty and charismatic and good at what they do…my girlfriends have shaped me more in the past year and a half than any other factor.”
3. On self-worth:
“My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.”
4. On decision-making:
“You’re going to have thousands of decisions to make that will shape the public’s perception of you. Let those decisions be your decisions. Don’t let them be some man in a suit’s decisions, or some A&R guy with a beanie’s decisions.”
5. On moving on:
“Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life — you need to live it on your terms for a while.”
6. On risk-taking:
“The only real risk is being too afraid to take a risk at all.”
7. On being alone:
“I recommend to all my friends that they be alone for a while. When you’re in love, or dating someone, you filter your life decisions through their eyes. When you spend a few years being who you are, completely unbiased, you can figure out what you actually want.”
8. On negativity:
“The first step to receiving negativity is to decide whether or not it is the opinion of somebody that you care about. If it’s somebody that I respect, then I really do take it into account because ‘haters gonna hate’ only applies to people who are simply criticising you because their life sucks.”
9. On dating:
“I’ve learnt that just because someone is cute and wants to date you, that’s not a reason to sacrifice your independence and allow everyone to say whatever they want about you. I’m not doing that anymore.”
10. On other women’s success:
“If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as a society. I surround myself with smart, beautiful, passionate, driven, ambitious women. Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you rather than threaten you and make you feel like you’re immediately being compared to them.”
11. On clothing choices:
“I cheer on anybody who is living their life on their own terms, wearing what they want to wear and representing what they want to represent,” she said, highlighting owning your sexuality, your strength, and anything else your clothes may make you feel. “I think that no other female artist should be able to tell me to wear less clothes, and I’m not going to tell any other female artist to wear more clothes.”
12. On moving forward:
“As a songwriter you have to open yourself up over and over again to pain and rejection – and doing that at the stage my career is in, the stakes are pretty high. So if you get your heart broken, you get your heart broken on the cover of magazines that are all over the world. But I think that it’s important to continue to live your life, and not be guarded or standoffish or keep people at a distance.”
13. On her values:
“[When writing new record 1989,] I was in a place where I felt like love isn’t everything to me. Like living my life, having fun, having the best friends I could possibly have and being the best friend I could possibly be: that’s what’s important to me.”
(h/t): Diply
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