Will Smith
I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.Collection: Believe
Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple.Collection: Believe
Those who say I can, and those who say I can't - are both usually rightCollection: I Can
I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more by who you want to be.Collection: Commitment
There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.Collection: Discipline
For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.Collection: Purpose
I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at." Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Inspirational
I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.Collection: Heart
Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man.Collection: Men
I love living. I think that's infectious, it's something you can't fake.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Safety
It's better to be prepared than to get ready.Collection: Be Prepared
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.Collection: Sex
You have to make every group you come in contact with better.Collection: Groups
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.Collection: School
Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.Collection: Dream
The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality.Collection: Character
I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.Collection: Believe
Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracyCollection: Being Real
Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves.Collection: Wave
The keys to life are running and reading.Collection: Running
I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.Collection: Home
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: Being Yourself
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.Collection: Motivational
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: Dream
Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.Collection: Inspirational Entrepreneurship
If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.Collection: Trust
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 and if you are not making someone else’s life better then you are wasting your time.Collection: World
And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.Collection: Sleep
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.Collection: Hate
Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.Collection: About Money
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: Trying
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?”Collection: Firsts
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that ‘pursuit’ of happiness because the ‘pursuit’ puts it back on you.Collection: Real
The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.’Collection: Firsts