Quotes from Will Smith

The person that works the hardest wins.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.

You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.

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.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

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 your. And stay.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

Your life will become better by making other lives better.

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.

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?"

I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.

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.

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?

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.

The keys to life are running and reading.

Life is...the moments that take your breath away.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.