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Do you crave success? Are you willing to do whatever it takes to become successful? If the answer is yes, these 50 Will Smith quotes on success are for you!
Aside from his presence in the media industry, Will Smith is admired around the world for his work ethic and motivation. Smith is an inspiration to many and encourages others to adopt a success mindset. Read below for the 50 inspirational Will Smith success quotes.
Will Smith Quotes On Success
- “It’s quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can’t imagine what else I could do beyond this. It’s really a bittersweet kind of feeling.” – Will Smith
- “I want the world to be better because I was here.” – Will Smith
- “There’s no reason to have a plan B cause it distracts from plan A.” – Will Smith
- “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.” – Will Smith
- “99% is the same as zero. If you are gonna do 99, go ahead and stay home.” – Will Smith
- “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.” – Will Smith
- “There are two kinds of people in this world. There are hammers and nails. You decide what to be ..” – Will Smith
- “Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.”– 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
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“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.” – Will Smith
- “I know who I am, I know what I believe, and that’s all I need to know.”– Will Smith
- “Look at your 5 closest friends. Those 5 friends are who you are. If you don’t like who you are then you know what you have to do.” – Will Smith
- “I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want … I believe I can create whatever I want to create.” – 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
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“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
- “Greatness exists in all of us.” – Will Smith
- “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”– 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 greatest dreams are always unrealistic.” – Will Smith
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“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
- “The first step is you have to say that you can.” – Will Smith
- “Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.” – Will Smith
- “If you’re absent during my struggle don’t expect to be present during my success.” – 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
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“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.” – Will Smith
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“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 every 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.” – Will Smith
- “The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.”– 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
- “You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.” – Will Smith
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“The first step before anyone else in the world believes it is you have to believe it.”– 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
- “If you don’t fight for what you want, don’t cry for what you lost.” – Will Smith
- “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.” – Will Smith
- “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.” – Will Smith
- “Life is lived on the edge.” – Will Smith
- “Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you’re going to fail, you probably will.” – Will Smith
- “Build your life or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”– Will Smith
- “You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.” – Will Smith
- “If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.” – Will Smith
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“There was probably a 12 year point where I didn’t take a drink or go out on the weekends. I was so set on my goal that I created a serious circle of protection and elevation because I refused to do anything that wasn’t in my best interest. It’s hugely important that if you have a dream, you have to dedicate your life to it and every hour of every day has to be dedicated to bringing it into fruition.” – Will Smith
- “When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.” – Will Smith
- “I never did anything for money. It was never about money. My experience is when people do things for money, you make bad decisions.” – Will Smith
- “Fail early, fail often and fail forward. Failing is a massive part of being successful. You have to get comfortable with failure. You have to actively seek failure. Failure is where all of the lessons are. Failure is where growth is, where adaptation is. Successful people fail a lot. They fail a whole lot more than they succeed, they extract the lessons from the failure and they use the energy and the wisdom to come around to the phase of success. You got to take a shot and live at the edge of your capabilities. You have to live where you’re almost certain you’re going to fail. That’s the reason for practice. Practice is controlled failure. Failure actually helps you to recognize the areas where you need to evolve so fail early, fail often and fail forward.” – Will Smith
- “Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.” – Will Smith
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“I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.” – Will Smith
- “The person that works the hardest wins.” – Will Smith
- “Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.” – Will Smith
- “I’d rather live my life knowing that I’m not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.” – Will Smith
- “I never viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping, I’m working.” – Will Smith
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“Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.” – Will Smith
Summary
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