Top 180 Will Smith Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Will Smith

52. “The first step is you have to say that you can.”

— Will Smith

53. “The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.”

— Will Smith

54. “The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.”

— Will Smith

55. “Greatness exists in all of us.”

— Will Smith

56. “Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard.”

— Will Smith

57. “I’d rather live my life knowing that I’m not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.”

— Will Smith

58. “Greatness lives on the edge of destruction.”

— Will Smith

59. “10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.”

— Will Smith

60. “There’s a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.”

— Will Smith

61. “The women who don’t seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.”

— Will Smith

62. “When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.”

— Will Smith

63. “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.”

— Will Smith

64. “Be magical, choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to. We are who we choose to be.”

— Will Smith

65. “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%.”

— Will Smith

66. “Life is dangerous and you’re not gonna live a life without risk.”

— Will Smith

67. “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.”

— Will Smith

68. “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.”

— Will Smith

69. “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.”

— Will Smith

70. “Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.”

— Will Smith

71. “I want to represent possibilities.”

— Will Smith

72. “The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.”

— Will Smith

73. “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?””

— Will Smith

74. “Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.”

— Will Smith

75. “The game cannot be won, only played.”

— Will Smith

76. “I can’t run away when I’m scared. I always have to attack. That’s how I deal with seemingly difficult things.”

— Will Smith

77. “Make time for it. Just get it done. Nobody ever got strong by thinking about it. They did it.”

— Will Smith

78. “You have to make every group you come in contact with better.”

— Will Smith

79. “I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.”

— Will Smith

80. “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.”

— Will Smith

81. “When you create art, the world has to wait.”

— Will Smith

82. “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.”

— Will Smith

83. “You can’t win enough, you can’t have enough money, you can’t succeed enough. There is not enough.”

— Will Smith

84. “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.”

— Will Smith

85. “I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.”

— Will Smith

86. “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.”

— Will Smith

87. “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.”

— Will Smith

88. “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.”

— Will Smith

89. “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.”

— Will Smith

90. “You can’t be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.”

— Will Smith

91. “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.”

— Will Smith

92. “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.”

— Will Smith

93. “Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind.”

— Will Smith

94. “Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.”

— Will Smith

95. “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.”

— Will Smith

96. “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?”

— Will Smith

97. “When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it’s going to happen tomorrow.”

— Will Smith

98. “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.”

— Will Smith

99. “Love is the ultimate theme, but it’s not just for women.”

— Will Smith

100. “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