“We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.”
— Will Smith
“Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.”
“Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.”
“Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”
“Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.”
“Running and reading are the keys of life.”
“There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.”
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.”
“You don’t set out to build a wall. You don't say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there. You say, ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.”
“Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you. And Stay.”
“The road to success is through commitment.”
“Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.”
“There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.”
“If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.”
“Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are just better at hiding it than others.”
“The person that works the hardest wins.”
“The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.”
“You want something? Go get it.”
“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.”
“I want the world to be better because I was here. 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 are wasting your time.”
“Those who say I can, and those who say I can’t – are both usually right.”
“I know who I am, I know what I believe, that’s all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do.”
“Danger is very real but fear is a choice.”
“Don’t let failure go to your heart, and don’t let success go to your head.”
“And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.”
“I want the world to be better because I was here.”
“Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you’re going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.”
“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.”
“Begin each day as if it were on purpose.”
“I don’t want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.”
“I’m motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.”
“I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill.”
“The keys to life are running and reading.”
“Can I say something? Um, I’m the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don’t know the answer, I’m gonna tell you that I don’t know. But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer.”
“You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that’s who you are. If you don’t want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.”
“Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.”
“You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.”
“I love you and I’m here for you.”
“I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.”
“I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.”
“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”
“Remember, don’t try to build the greatest wall that’s ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.”
“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.”
“Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.”
“If you’re always ready, you don’t have to get ready.”
“It’s better to be prepared than to get ready.”
“I’d rather live my life knowing that I’m not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.”
“Greatness lives on the edge of destruction.”
“A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.”
“Greatness exists in all of us.”
“Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What’s the point of being realistic? I’m going to do it. It’s done. It’s already done. The second I decide it’s done, it’s already done.”
“There’s a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.”
“So if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.”
“When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.”
“Your life will become better by making other lives better.”
“The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.”
“If you’re not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I’d rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.”
“Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.”
“Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What’s the point of being realistic? It’s unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on, but fortunately Edison didn’t think so.”
“Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard.”
“The women who don’t seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.”
“10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.”
“The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.”
“The first step is you have to say that you can.”
“Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.”
“Be magic choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to believe. We are who we choose to be.”
“I want to represent possibilities.”
“Life is dangerous and you’re not gonna live a life without risk.”
“The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.”
“Anything can go away. There’s no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there’s really no such thing.”
“I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I’ve learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It’s like being animated by the love of a woman – the need to be worthy of her.”
“I think my general disposition on life is finding what’s funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, “What’s funny about it?””
“Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.”
“The game cannot be won, only played.”
“You have to make every group you come in contact with better.”
“I can’t run away when I’m scared. I always have to attack. That’s how I deal with seemingly difficult things.”
“You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.”
“I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.”
“When you create art, the world has to wait.”
“Give me a problem, I’ll give you a solution. I just love living. That’s a feeling you can’t fake. I’m glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I’m a happy man.”
“I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don’t believe you actually need college to get you there.”
“You can’t win enough, you can’t have enough money, you can’t succeed enough. There is not enough.”
“I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I’m trying to live my life right now. He said, “Some targets are only meant to be aimed at.” Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.”
“I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.”
“You can’t be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.”
“Boys laugh at what they put girls through – but they won’t be laughing when – they’re wiping tears off their daughters face for the same reason.”
“I control every interaction with every human being I’m with. I can actually manage any situation with 98 percent of the people on Earth.”
“We didn’t grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn’t matter, because we will be becoming something greater.”
“I’ve always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I’ve always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.”
“I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.”
“Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what’s true. We care how it feels.”
“I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith?”
“When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it’s going to happen tomorrow.”
“There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I’ll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.”
“Love is the ultimate theme, but it’s not just for women.”
“The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests – not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.”
“Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.”
“Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.”
“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.”
“Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.”
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