Will Smith
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.Collection: Inspirational
Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.Collection: Compare
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Choices
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.Collection: Inspiring
Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Inspirational
Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.Collection: Inspiring
Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.Collection: Crush
The road to success is through commitment.Collection: Commitment
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.Collection: Wall
Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.Collection: Mouths
10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.Collection: Hate
Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.Collection: People
Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you're going to fail, you probably will.Collection: Believe
Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Confidence
Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Care
There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.Collection: Inspirational
She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.Collection: Profound
What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared ofCollection: Attitude
I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.Collection: Morning
If the world attacks and you slide off track, remember one fact, I got your back.Collection: Friendship
You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal.Collection: Truthful
Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.Collection: Being Real
Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?Collection: Meaningful
It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".Collection: Struggle
The guy who's willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy that just gets that loose ball.Collection: Guy
Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.Collection: Mean
There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history - you have to believe that something different can happen.Collection: Believe
On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'Collection: Feet
Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.Collection: Men
I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Inspirational
Just stay ready. Stay in shape and then you don't have to rush to train before the movie starts. I'll show you my abs later because I’m in shape. But that idea, if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.Collection: Ideas
Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.Collection: Distance
Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.Collection: Love
If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.Collection: Life
I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.Collection: Ideas
Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind.Collection: Summer
I think for me, as a parent, once my children are thoroughly informed, they can make the decisions that they want to make. The only thing that I demand is a complete comprehension [of the information].Collection: Children
The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.Collection: Thinking
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hardCollection: Being Yourself
You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?Collection: Life Changing
The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.Collection: Funny
I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.Collection: Believe
You've got to run your career. What happens is a lot of times artists have this talent and they're just looking for somebody to take it and do something with it. And you have to be the creative force.Collection: Running