Quotes About Self-reliance

Nothing - and, I repeat, nothing - can affect what you build with sheer hard work. You either wait for people to define your worth or you define it with your own actions. I believe in the latter.

In elementary school, I think all my report cards said, 'Emily plays well alone.'

To know how far I've come as a person and an entertainer and a businesswoman, I just hope I represent independence and intelligence and athleticism - everything that a woman should want to be.

I am not a representative of anything. I have my opinions.

At the end of the day, me representing myself shouldn't be a big deal.

But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I've been doing it since I was four.

People ask me what I do, and I tell them, 'I'm a fisherman and a hunter.' They look at me like I'm lazy or crazy.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

There's nothing that anyone could say about me that would hurt my feelings.

You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.

I don't do husbands. I don't do children.

It can be isolating to be an entrepreneur... you have to keep hustling to make it happen and that can be lonely.

I am not so bad, actually, at doing my own makeup, so for more low-key events, I'll do my own, but for something like 'Harper's Bazaar' Icons Party, I would definitely get a makeup artist or a hair artist if I had time.

When I am on my board, I always have my ID, ChapStick and maybe a $20 bill, because you never know when you'll need to buy a water or something.

I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.

In an ideal world, Adam Smith-like, individuals would recognize what they need to do in their own self-interest, and they will make changes happen and look after themselves.

Ideally, we should be controlling what we eat by cooking for ourselves.

I think it's very important to do things the way you want to do them and be true to yourself, your own goals, and your own ideals.

I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.

I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career.

My dad tells me to ignore any expectation.