Top 180 Will Smith Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.”

— Will Smith

102. “There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.”

— Will Smith

103. “Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.”

— Will Smith

104. “I’m a student of world religion, so to me, it’s hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.”

— Will Smith

105. “Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you’re going to fail, you probably will.”

— Will Smith

106. “Life is lived on the edge.”

— Will Smith

107. “Your words and thoughts have physical power.”

— Will Smith

108. “I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don’t care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.”

— Will Smith

109. “There’s a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history – you have to believe that something different can happen.”

— Will Smith

110. “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

111. “My God, my higher power, it’s mine and mine alone. I create my connection, and I decide what my connection is going to be.”

— Will Smith

112. “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.’ I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good.’”

— Will Smith

113. “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.”

— Will Smith

114. “It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.”

— Will Smith

115. “You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.”

— Will Smith

116. “I love living. I think that’s infectious, it’s something you can’t fake.”

— Will Smith

117. “The guy who’s willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy that just gets that loose ball.”

— Will Smith

118. “There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.”

— Will Smith

119. “Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment problem?”

— Will Smith

120. “Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.”

— Will Smith

121. “I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve.”

— Will Smith

122. “If the world attacks and you slide off track, remember one fact, I got your back.”

— Will Smith

123. “Just stay ready. Stay in shape and then you don’t have to rush to train before the movie starts. I’ll show you my abs later because I’m in shape. But that idea, if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.”

— Will Smith

124. “I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I’ve viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.”

— Will Smith

125. “What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.”

— Will Smith

126. “We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don’t mean.”

— Will Smith

127. “Probably means there’s a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.”

— Will Smith

128. “If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.”

— Will Smith

129. “You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.”

— Will Smith

130. “In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.”

— Will Smith

131. “Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves.”

— Will Smith

132. “I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it’s as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I enjoy pushing myself.”

— Will Smith

133. “I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else’s life lighter, brighter, or better.”

— Will Smith

134. “I don’t necessarily believe in organized religion.”

— Will Smith

135. “As a child, I watched ‘Dallas’ and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.”

— Will Smith

136. “You can’t break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don’t take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.”

— Will Smith

137. “The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup.”

— Will Smith

138. “Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people’s lives brighter. You just shake somebody’s hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.”

— Will Smith

139. “I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my ‘Will Smith’ thing and get paid.”

— Will Smith

140. “Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!”

— Will Smith

141. “There ain’t no problem that some other dude didn’t have 1,000 years ago.”

— Will Smith

142. “I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.”

— Will Smith

143. “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

144. “She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.”

— Will Smith

145. “When I was young, and I’d get A’s, I’d get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I’d never became any of them.”

— Will Smith

146. “I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.”

— Will Smith

147. “Tons of women would love to have sex with me. I hate the image of black men as promiscuous and unable to control themselves sexually. I don’t like that image.”

— Will Smith

148. “I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.”

— Will Smith

149. “Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that ‘pursuit’ of happiness because the ‘pursuit’ puts it back on you.”

— Will Smith

150. “The execs don’t care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It’s green.”

— Will Smith