Will Smith Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.

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

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 compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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%.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

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.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

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.

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

Your life will become better by making other lives better.

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

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

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