My favorite Will Smith inspirational quotes!
“The difference between depression and joy is purpose. When you wake up in the morning, and your life means something to somebody other than you, then you have a purpose. If you don’t go do the thing you’re going to do then people’s lives will suffer. I think that kind of purpose, to live in service of humanity, to your family, your city, the world, I feel that is the purest form of joy.”
“I want to do good. 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. It’s like if you are not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.”
“The keys to life are running and reading. When you’re running, there’s a little person that talks to you and says, “Oh I’m tired. My lung’s about to pop. I’m so hurt. There’s no way I can possibly continue.” You want to quit. 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. For reading there have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There’s no new problem you could have; with your parents, with school, with a bully. There’s no new problem that someone hasn’t already had and written about it in a book.”
“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.”
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real but fear is a choice.”
“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%.”
“The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.”
“I’ve viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.”
“I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.”
“Money and success don’t change people, they merely amplify what is already there.”
“Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests – not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.”
“In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.”
“Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are just better at hiding it than others.”
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”
“There is no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.”
“Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.”
“You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say I’m gonna build the biggest baddest wall that’s ever been built. You say, I’m gonna lay this brick, as perfectly as a brick can be laid, and you do that every single day, and soon you have a wall. It’s difficult to take the first step when you look how big the task is. The task is never huge to me, it’s always one brick.”
“The first step before anyone else in the world believes it is you have to believe it.”
“I know who I am, I know what I believe, and that’s all I need to know.”