Will Smith Quotes

The first step is you have to say that you can.

I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.

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.

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

I know who I am, I know what I believe, and that’s all I need to know.

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

Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It’s something that truly exists in all of us.

The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is that I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill.

You don’t try to build a wall. You don’t start there. You say, ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’

The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be outworked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things. You got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there’s two things: You’re getting off first, or I’m going to die. It’s really that simple.

I love living. I think that’s infectious.

I never viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

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

If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

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

99% is hard as hell. 100% is a breeze.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

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.

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

Human beings are so interesting, and the more you learn about human behavior, the more you realize that people have the same problems, and we’re all trying to figure out the same things.

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

Greatness is born of the grind.

You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

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 that have ever lived.

I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous, insane, obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

Traditional schooling is rooted in a shortage model of thinking.

Success is not something you pursue; it’s something you attract by becoming an attractive person.

Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.

It’s quite highly possible that I have peaked.

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.

I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous, insane, obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.

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

I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

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

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

You cannot be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is going to be constant.

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

I just want to be the best at what I do.

I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.

Don’t let success go to your head and failure go to your heart.

I’ve always been confident in myself, and I’ve always had the belief that if I’m on my game, I can do whatever I want to do.

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

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

I know who I am, I know what I believe, and that’s all I need to know.