Will smith quotes

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.

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.

There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are ... your talent is going to fail you if you're not skilled. If you don't study, if you don't work really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day, you 'll never be able to communicate with people your artistry the way that you want!

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

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

Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.

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.

The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.

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

You don’t try to build a wall, 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.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.

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

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.

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.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity

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.

Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.

Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.

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.

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

It's better to be prepared than to get ready.

For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

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.

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.

I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

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

You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.

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.

You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough. The only thing that will ever satiate that existential thirst is love. And I just remember that day I made the shift from wanting to be a winner to wanting to have the most powerful, deep, and beautiful relationships I could possibly have.

I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

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

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.

I just think that the gifts that God has given me and the attention that I have, I just don't feel like acting is the limit of it. I just feel like there's so much more that I could do...And, you know, every day I wake up and I try to do a little more and I just want the world to be different and better because I was here.

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

You'd be surprised how much you don't understand what other people see your actions as; how other people view the things you say and the things that you do. And a lot of times just clarifying what your intentions are with people makes a huge difference.

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more by who you want to be.

While the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working.

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 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.

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.

The person that works the hardest wins.

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

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

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 Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice.

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

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'

Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.

I love living. I think that's infectious, it's something you can't fake.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

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.

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

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.

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

Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.

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.

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.

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

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.

Your words and thoughts have physical power.

The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill.

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

Greatness exists in all of us.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

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.

Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.

Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

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

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

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.

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.

Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.

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

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

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.

When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

The keys to life are running and reading.

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.

The game cannot be won, only played.

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.

Your life will become better by making other lives better.

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'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.

Life is lived on the edge.

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.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

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

Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple.

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%.

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.

Be magic choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to believe. We are who we choose to be.

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

I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.

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?"

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too. But I'm working really hard at it.

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

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.

If you want somethin', go get it. Period.

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.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

If you're always ready, you don't have to get ready.

Those who say I can, and those who say I can't - are both usually right

Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.

The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality.

Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.

Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.

You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.

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

The road to success is through commitment.

When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

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.