Willard Carroll Smith Jr. is a prominent American actor, comedian, rapper, and film producer. He has been awarded with Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards, and many others. Some of his famous movies are: The Pursuit of Happyness, Men in Black, Ali, I Am Legend, and Hancock.
To know more about Will Smith, you can read his biography
here.
Being in the showbiz industry for decades, and still being one of the famous actors in Hollywood, it is in no doubt that Will Smith is one of the successful personalities you’ll definitely have to look up for. Today, I’m listing 41 of his best inspiring and self-motivational quotes towards success. Watch out for our best picks and stay in-touch to see the video at the end.
1. “The first step is that you have to say that you can.”
2. “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.”
3. “Too many people
spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress
people they don’t like.”
4. “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.”
5. “I wake up every morning believing that today is going to be
better than yesterday.”
6. “In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar.
Y’all just didn’t know it yet.”
7. “Life isn’t how many breaths you take, but it’s the moments
that take your breath away.”
8. “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.”
9. “You can’t be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the
only thing that is ever going to be constant.”
10. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify
what is already there.”
11. “I believe you need to be educated on what you want to do in
life, but I don’t believe you necessarily need college to get there.”
12. “There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts
from plan A.”
13. “Being realistic is
the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.”
14. “If you don’t fight
for what you want, don’t cry for what you lost.”
15. “Stop letting people
who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.”
16. “If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be
present during my success.”
17. “If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you
are wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other people’s
lives better.”
18. “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.”
19. “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.”
20. “Greatness exists in
all of us.”
21. “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.”
22. “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.”
23. “Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all
honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are just better at hiding it than
others.”
24. “You can cry. Ain’t no shame in it.”
25. “There are so many people who have lived and died before
you. You will never have a new problem; you’re not going to ever have a new
problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.”
26. “I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my
personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less
likable.”
27. “Let your smile
change the world. Don’t let the world change your smile.”
28. “Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what
still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.”
29. “10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share,
enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.”
30. “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%.”
31. “Look at your five closest friends. Those five friends are
who you are. If you don’t like who you are then you know what you have to do.”
32. “The things that have been most valuable to me, I did not
learn in school.”
33. “Traditional education is based on facts and figures and
passing tests – not on a comprehension of the material and its application to
your life.”
34. “So if you stay
ready, you ain’t gonna get ready, and that is how I run my life.”
35. “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.’ You do that every single day,
and soon you have a wall.”
36. “I want the world to better because I was here.”
37. “Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush
every fear, and to hide every pain.”
38. “I think that there’s a certain delusional quality that all
successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different
can happen.”
39. “Don’t let success go to your heads and don’t let failure
into your hearts.”
40. “The road to success is through commitment, and through the
strength to drive through the commitment when it gets hard. And it is gonna get
hard and you’re gonna wanna quit sometimes, but it’ll be colored by who you
are, and more who you want to be.”
41. “I’m motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to
do something. I started attacking things that I was scared of.”
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