Willard Carroll Smith Jr is an American producer, actor and rapper. He is known as one of the most powerful actors in Hollywood. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. He has also won four Grammy Awards. Here are some of his inspiring quotes.
Inspiring Will Smith Quotes
“The first step is you have to say you can.” Will Smith
“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.” Will Smith
“I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.” Will Smith
“So if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.” Will Smith

“And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.” Will Smith
“I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that’s where I thrive.” Will Smith
“I want the world to be better because I was here.”
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“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” Will Smith
“In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.” Will Smith
“Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.” Will Smith

“The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.” Will Smith
“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%.” Will Smith
“When you create art, the world has to wait.” Will Smith
“You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.”
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“I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.” Will Smith
“Life is lived on the edge.” Will Smith
“There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.” Will Smith

“I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.” Will Smith
“For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.” Will Smith
“I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.”
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“Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests – not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.” Will Smith
“I’m a student of world religion, so to me, it’s hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.” Will Smith
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” Will Smith

“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.” Will Smith
“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.” Will Smith
“Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.”
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“I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.” Will Smith
“If you’re not making someone else’s life better than you are wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other people’s lives better.” Will Smith
“If you’re absent during my struggle don’t expect to be present during my success.” 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.” Will Smith
“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.” Will Smith
“I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likeable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.”
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“Greatness exists in all of us.” Will Smith
“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.” Will Smith