Inspiring Taylor Swift Quotes to Empower Your Journey

"I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place."

- Taylor Swift

"To me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before. FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again… even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost. It’s FEARLESS to have faith that someday things will change. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can’t breathe without them. I think it’s FEARLESS to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s FEARLESS to stop believing them. It’s FEARLESS to say “you’re NOT sorry”, and walk away. I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS. I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. Letting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on and being alright…That’s FEARLESS too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince Charmings and happily ever after. That’s why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS."

- Taylor Swift

"Life isn't how to survive the storm, it's about how to dance in the rain."

- Taylor Swift

"If you're lucky enough to be different, never change."

- Taylor Swift

"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."

- Taylor Swift

"And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to say "you're NOT sorry" and walk away."

- Taylor Swift

"Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway..."

- Taylor Swift

"Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone."

- Taylor Swift

"I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains."

- Taylor Swift

"Just be yourself, there is no one better."

- Taylor Swift

"Giving up doesn't always mean you're weak, sometimes you're just strong enough to let go."

- Taylor Swift

"FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost."

- Taylor Swift

"Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything. I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help."

- Taylor Swift

"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list."

- Taylor Swift

"People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want."

- Taylor Swift

"My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream."

- Taylor Swift

"Life is like walking, you take one step at a time."

- Taylor Swift

"Never compare yourself to the beautiful girls. There's always someone gorgeous who will make you feel like you're not."

- Taylor Swift

"I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful."

- Taylor Swift

"Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful. You don't have to be like everyone else."

- Taylor Swift

"Beauty is sincerity. There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful."

- Taylor Swift

"When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair."

- Taylor Swift

"I suffer from girl-next-door-itis where the guy is friends with you and that's it."

- Taylor Swift

"I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card."

- Taylor Swift

"In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character, and honesty, and trust."

- Taylor Swift

"I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I wouldn't be so enthralled with it. Lately I've come to a wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel like I'm an expert at it, it's worth writing songs about -- more than anything else I've ever experienced in my life."

- Taylor Swift

"I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love."

- Taylor Swift

"I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless."

- Taylor Swift

"Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go?"

- Taylor Swift

"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."

- Taylor Swift

"Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep."

- Taylor Swift

"I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers."

- Taylor Swift

"I love these people so much and getting to go out there to look them in the eye and tell them that is my favorite part of the night."

- Taylor Swift

"We should love, not fall in love because everything that falls breaks."

- Taylor Swift

"In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up."

- Taylor Swift

"I'm not opposed to falling in love."

- Taylor Swift

"You need to be happy with yourself or you'll never be able to be happy in a relationship."

- Taylor Swift

"Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse."

- Taylor Swift

"People haven't always been there for me, but music always has."

- Taylor Swift

"Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music."

- Taylor Swift

"I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."

- Taylor Swift

"If you write, you can turn your lessons into your legacy."

- Taylor Swift

"The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now."

- Taylor Swift

"Say “I Love You” More: I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn’t speak up. When we didn’t say ‘I love you.’ When we should’ve said ‘I’m sorry.’ When we didn’t stand up for ourselves or someone who needed help."

- Taylor Swift

"I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway."

- Taylor Swift

"The people who are the most successful in this world are the ones who don’t stop asking questions, who don’t stop being curious, and who don’t stop searching for the truth."

- Taylor Swift

"Be Strong: Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down."

- Taylor Swift

"Know Yourself: I think it’s important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority."

- Taylor Swift

"Speak Up: Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I’ve begun to fear more than that is letting the moment pass without saying anything."

- Taylor Swift

"Do Your Best: In the grand scheme of things, I’m living a life… I know I’m going to make mistakes. I’m just going to try to handle those mistakes as a good person. The perception of you is going to change daily when you do what I do, but I just want to end up knowing in my heart that I did that right thing and tried my best, and if you mess up, hopefully it teaches you something."

- Taylor Swift

"Overcome Your Fears: To me, Fearless is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."

- Taylor Swift

"I’m intimidated by the fear of being average."

- Taylor Swift

"In the absence of fear, there is little room for bravery."

- Taylor Swift

"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."

- Taylor Swift

"You are not the opinion of someone who doesn’t know you."

- Taylor Swift

"You can be the best version of yourself, no matter what other people think."

- Taylor Swift

"To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."

- Taylor Swift

"Love story? No, this is my story."

- Taylor Swift

"The only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone."

- Taylor Swift

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."

- Taylor Swift

"Never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth."

- Taylor Swift

"You are your own definition of beautiful and worthwhile."

- Taylor Swift

"There’s a moment when you get home, and you just sit there and reflect on the day. That’s when you start thinking about who you are, who you want to be, and where you want to go."

- Taylor Swift

"We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls gets broken."

- Taylor Swift

"A lot of things are easier in life when you accept that you can’t control everything."

- Taylor Swift

"Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial."

- Taylor Swift

"Believe in Love: Real love still happens sometimes. It’s not just something we make up when we’re nine. I have to believe that. You do too."

- Taylor Swift

"Embrace the Uncertainty: I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card."

- Taylor Swift

"Be the New Generation: Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful."

- Taylor Swift

"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience."

- Taylor Swift

"Just because something is over doesn’t mean it wasn’t incredibly beautiful."

- Taylor Swift

"We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful."

- Taylor Swift

"I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard."

"There are two ways you can get through pain. You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you to dream bigger."

"Never believe anyone who says you don't deserve what you want."

"You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing."

"Apologizing when you have hurt someone who really matters to you takes nothing away from you."

"Your support is all someone needs when they’re at their lowest point."

"There might be times when you put your whole heart and soul into something, and it is met with cynicism or skepticism, but you can't let that crush you. You have to let that fuel you, because we live in a world where anyone has the right to say anything that they want about you at any time, but just please remember that you have the right to prove them wrong."

"If you're being met with resistance, that probably means doing something new. If you're experiencing turbulence or pressure, that probably means you're rising."

"You can't spell cats without TS."

"I'm not asleep, my mind is alive."

"And in the death of her reputation, she truly felt alive."

"You could lose your hand, you could lose your foot. You could lose your hand getting it off your foot."

"Step into the daylight and let it go."

"Grow a backbone, trust your gut, and know when to strike back. Be like a snake—only bite if someone steps on you."

"Not the steak!"

"Every day I try to remind myself of the good in the world, the love I’ve witnessed and the faith I have in humanity. We have to live bravely in order to truly feel alive, and that means not being ruled by our greatest fears."