Top 277 Quotes & Sayings by Will Smith - Page 2

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.

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.

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

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

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

Your life will become better by making other lives better.

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.

Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.

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.

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

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.

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

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The person that works the hardest wins.

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

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.

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

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.

The game cannot be won, only played.

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.

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

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

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity

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'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.

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.

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

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

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

Your words and thoughts have physical power.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Greatness exists in all of us.