Will Smith Quotes

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.

I still look at myself and want to improve.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

And again, hast thou valued Patience, Courage, Perseverance, Openness to light; readiness to own thyself mistaken, to do better next time

You have to be confident in who you are and what you're doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, 'Today is the best I will ever be.' I'm always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.

I certainly had an arrogant streak. And I certainly was defensive in certain cases. Maybe I'm still arrogant, but I try not to be.

Sometimes, success in life is knowing one's limitations.

I don't like rehabilitating myself. It is one of the things I dislike.

I've always had lots of energy; it's just been about channelling it in the right way. I know I can be annoying, but that's just my way and hopefully more people than not like my personality.

The big thing for me is no longer is trying to impress people around me.

I was crazy. And I was too much of a diva. I'm glad I'm not like that anymore.

You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.

I don't want to go on stage with anger. And that's why I worked so hard to look within and change myself and evolve.

I just try to be the player I am.

Humility is a super-important factor in all of our lives, and I try to remind myself every evening in front of the mirror, 'Just calm down.'

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

To have to watch myself in a way that was constructively critical was really good for me because it made me a little bit more easy on myself because I wasn't allowed to walk away screaming.

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.