Will Smith Quotes

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.

In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.

I don't really talk about myself. I always talk about what could make the team better.

Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.

I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community.

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people.

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love, and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and the world.

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

I want to contribute to sport and the community in a positive way.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

I want to be a role model.

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

By making yourself better, that's how you make your team better.

I always thought of myself as being part of a family and sharing and, yes, leading, but not forcing people to do anything.