Top 35 Sam Smith Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I didn’t become successful until I became myself.”

— Sam Smith

2. “The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you’re using it.”

— Sam Smith

3. “Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.”

— Sam Smith

4. “I want to be rich in all the foods I’ve tasted and all the places I’ve been and all the people I’ve kissed.”

— Sam Smith

5. “Love as hard as you can, at all times.”

— Sam Smith

6. “Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.”

— Sam Smith

7. “Guess it’s true I’m not good at a one night stand, but I still need love cause I’m just a man.”

— Sam Smith

8. “Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.”

— Sam Smith

9. “One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don’t understand what people hear in my voice. I can’t hear it myself, if you know what I mean.”

— Sam Smith

10. “Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.”

— Sam Smith

11. “Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!”

— Sam Smith

12. “In the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn’t love me back. I think I’m over it now, but I was in a very dark place. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn’t felt love before.”

— Sam Smith

13. “Kill me if you will, I am not afraid to die; and I have endured so much oppression that I am weary of life. But I am a strong man, and I could cast both of you down, if I would. If you have any legal process to serve, present it, for I am at all times subject to law and shall not offer resistance.”

— Sam Smith

14. “No, I am not afraid; the Lord said he would protect me, and I have full confidence in His word.”

— Sam Smith

15. “There is one principle which is eternal; it is the duty of all men to protect their lives and the lives of the household, whenever necessity requires, and no power has a right to forbid it, should the last extreme arrive...”

— Sam Smith

16. “I’ve only been in unrequited relationships where people haven’t loved me back. I guess I’m a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.”

— Sam Smith

17. “But there’s also moments where I’m like, ‘Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.’”

— Sam Smith

18. “Many persons think a prophet must be a good deal better than anybody else. Suppose I would condescend – yes, I will call it condescend, to be a great deal better than any of you. I would be raised to the highest heaven; and who should I have to accompany me?”

— Sam Smith

19. “Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!”

— Sam Smith

20. “If someone called me fat, that affects me way more than someone calling me a f – -t. I think just because I’ve accepted that, if someone calls me a f – -t, it’s like, I am gay and I’m proud to be gay so there’s no issues there. If something calls you fat, that’s something I want to change.”

— Sam Smith

21. “Men are in the habit, when the truth is exhibited by the servants of God, of saying, All is mystery; they have spoken in parables, and, therefore, are not to be understood. It is true they have eyes to see, and see not, but none are so blind as those who will not see.”

— Sam Smith

22. “Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.”

— Sam Smith

23. “We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.”

— Sam Smith

24. “There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle.”

— Sam Smith

25. “A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.”

— Sam Smith

26. “To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.”

— Sam Smith

27. “There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.”

— Sam Smith

28. “Go tell your general for me that if he does not immediately withdraw his men, I will send them to hell!”

— Sam Smith

29. “Polls are the corporate media’s standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.”

— Sam Smith

30. “I have always placed my highest and most permanent hopes upon the eternity of the Communal situation.”

— Sam Smith

31. “A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.”

— Sam Smith

32. “If you’re seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You’re just fighting different kinds of battles -.”

— Sam Smith

33. “If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.”

— Sam Smith

34. “I’ve been in love and you’ll never know.”

— Sam Smith

35. “It’s hard playing on a team with Michael Jordan because you’re always the reason the team lost.”

— Sam Smith

36. “If you spend time wishing you had other players and scheming to get rid of them or not being loyal, either you end up hating them or they end up hating you, and that cannot be productive.”

— Sam Smith

37. “Nothing can stop the man with the right attitude from achieving his goal,” Jackson wrote, “but nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.”

— Sam Smith

38. “In the 1989–90 season, he and New York’s Mark Jackson were fined for saying they had bet on which of them would make the winning shot in a close Knicks-76ers game. Barkley would be called in by the commissioner for a slap on the wrist and lecture, only to say, when asked if he were going to be fined, “Wanna bet?”

— Sam Smith