Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
– Will Smith
Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.
– Will Smith
Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, godlike feature that only the special among
us will ever taste. It’s something that truly exists in all of us. It’s very simple. This is what I
believe and I’m willing to die for it. Period.
– Will Smith
I want my life, I want my work, my family – I want it to mean something. And if you are not
making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. Your life will become better
by making other’s lives better.
– Will Smith
I know who I am; I know what I believe; and that’s all I need to know. So from there you do
what you need to do.
– Will Smith
I want to do good. I want the world to be better because I was here.
– Will Smith
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on
your craft.
– Will Smith
I realize to have the level of success that I wanna have is difficult to spread it out and do
multiple things. It takes such a desperate, obsessive focus. You really got to fucus with all of
your fibre and all of your heart and all of your creativity.
– Will Smith
There’s no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are. Your talent is gonna fail you
if you are not skilled. You know, if you don’t study, if you don’t work really hard, if you don’t
dedicate yourself to becoming better every single day, you’ll never be able to communicate
with people of your artistry the way that you want.
– Will Smith
Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas are physical in the universe.
– Will Smith
The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is that I’m not afraid to die on a
treadmill. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, but if we get
on a treadmill together, there are two things: You’re getting off first or I’m gonna die. It’s
really that simple.
– Will Smith
I’m motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something.
– Will Smith
I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist. And one of the
great feats alchemists used to do is – they would take lead, just a chunk of lead, and they
could turn lead into gold… I’m so connected symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My
grandmother used to say, “Life gives you lemons, you go ahead make lemonade.” To me that’s
alchemy. That’s the same concept behind the alchemist.
– Will Smith
If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don’t think there’s anything that could
stop me becoming President of the United States.
– Will Smith
I wanna represent an idea. I wanna represent possibilities. I wanna represent the idea that you
really can make what you want.
– Will Smith
I wake up every day full of hope, positive that every day is going to be better than yesterday.
And I’m looking to infect people with my positivity. I think I can start an epidemic.
– Will Smith
Spend some time with your loved ones, and send some positive energy to those in need.
Thanksgiving ain’t just about food and football!
– Will Smith, Facebook status
I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like
the greatest people who have ever lived.
– Will Smith
I think that there’s a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.
– Will Smith
There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing
the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father. And how come that’s not
as newsworthy?
– Will Smith
The keys to life are running and reading. When you’re running, there’s a little person that
talks to you and says, “Oh, I’m tired. My lung’s about to pop. I’m so hurt. There’s no way I
can possibly continue.” You want to quit. If you learn how to defeat that person when you’re
running you will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life. For reading: there
have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There’s no new problem you
could have – with your parents, with school, with a bully. There’s no new problem that
someone hasn’t already had and written about it in a book.
– Will Smith
We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do
not care.
– Will Smith
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
– Will Smith
It’s great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and
different just by virtue of the fact that he’s black.
– Will Smith
Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a
product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever
exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice.
– Will Smith, After Earth
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
– Will Smith
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with
the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
– Will Smith
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you
must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must
drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
– Will Smith
The first step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it.
– Will Smith
Everybody needs a partner to stand right by their side.
– Will Smith
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with
the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make
anybody believe that he has it.
– Will Smith
You don’t try to build a wall. You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say “I’m gonna build
the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.” You don’t start there. You say,
“I’m gonna lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.” And you do that every single
day, and soon you have a wall.
– Will Smith
I love living. I think that’s infectious. It’s something that you can’t fake.
– Will Smith
My grandmother always said, “If you’re gonna be here, there’s a necessity to make a
difference.” She instilled the responsibility, the spiritual responsibility, that you have to make
every group you come in contact with better.
– Will Smith
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and
emotions.
– Will Smith
I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented, where I excel is ridiculous, sickening
work ethic. While the other guy is sleeping, I’m working. While the other guy is eating, I’m
working.
– Will Smith
There’s no reason to have a Plan B because it distracts from Plan A.
– Will Smith
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that “pursuit” of happiness because the
“pursuit” puts it back on you.
– Will Smith
The guy who was willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy that just gets that loose
ball… It’s like the commodity I see the majority of people who aren’t getting the places they
want or aren’t achieving the things that they want in this business is strictly based on hustle.
– Will Smith
It’s quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can’t imagine what else I could do
beyond this. It’s really a bittersweet kind of feeling.
– Will Smith
There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has. You know, rather than feeling like you
are at effect to all the things that are happening – make a choice! You just decide what it’s
gonna be, who you gonna be, how you gonna do it. Just decide! And from that point the
universe is gonna get out of your way!
– Will Smith
Basic principles: No matter what, no matter when, no matter who. Any man has a chance to
sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.
– Will Smith
The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand
how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because
that’s what my success has really been about: Bridging the gap between the black
community and the white community.
– Will Smith
I have a great time with my life and I wanna share it.
– Will Smith
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
– Will Smith
Confucius said, “He who says he can and he who says he can’t are both usually right.”
– Will Smith