Will Smith Quotes

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what are you going to do?' I don't care. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I'll try again.

You have to believe in yourself. But you know what? There's a fine line between believing in yourself and being delusional. And I'm sure there were a lot of people who thought I was being delusional when they saw me attempting to become a big shot in the world of pro wrestling. Luckily, it worked out: it doesn't work out for that many people.

That's why I won: because I believed I had a chance.

Tell me why is it easier if you know the number one? You prepare as though you are number one anyway.

Average people look forward to "getting off." Successful people look forward to "getting on."

I'll never worry about not being successful. I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.

I have yet to meet someone who was successful who was even slightly negative. That comes from a muscle training. You can work on negativity and weed it out of your life. I've noticed that all of the people who acted as if they were going to be gone too soon, were gone too soon.

We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

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.

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let them. If people say you are mad, you know you're on the right track.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

A strange side effect of sudden success is the sense that if you can succeed in one field, then it might well be worth trying to succeed in another.

I knew I had the potential. I would say, have self belief and dedication and leave the rest to destiny!