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15 Quotes by Will Smith that’ll inspire you today

04/19/2024 by Roy Sutton

Today I thought you might find it interesting to explore some quotes by Will Smith.

Willard Carroll Smith II, better known as Will Smith, is an American actor, rapper, and producer. He’s a Hollywood A-Lister and successful by any measure.

Noted for his work in film, television, and music, he has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, four Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award.

Anyone as successful as Will Smith is someone we can learn from. Yes, he’s made mistakes, who hasn’t? But you can’t argue with success. If it worked for him, it might work for you.

So, enjoy these 15 quotes by Will Smith. I’m confident at least some of them will inspire you.

Quotes by Will Smith (1-10):

Life is lived on the edge.
The first step is you have to say that you can.
I want the world to be better because I was here.
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.
And where I excel is my ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.
I’m a student of world religion, so to me, it’s hugely important to have the knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Quotes by Will Smith (11-15):

I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likeable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don’t think there’s anything that could stop me from becoming President of the United States.
Throughout life, people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don’t mean.
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.

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If you could do it now please, I’d be ever so grateful.

If you have any thoughts to share about what matters most in life then your comments would be welcome. Readers would love to read your ideas and thoughts on this topic.

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25 Quotes by Charles Dickens to get you thinking

03/30/2024 by Roy Sutton

Today I thought it would be interesting to explore some quotes by Charles Dickens.

Charles John Huffam Dickens was a famous English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

Dickens’ works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.

However, don’t assume Dickens had an easy start in life. He left school at the age of 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors’ prison.

Nevertheless, after three years, he returned to education, before eventually, he began his literary career as a journalist. The rest, as they say, is history.

In addition to his written work, he campaigned vigorously for children’s rights, education, and other social reforms.

He was certainly a man who left his mark on life. So, he was well worth listening to, I think.

Here are 25 quotes by Charles Dickens that will get you thinking. Please feel free to share them.

Quotes by Charles Dickens (1-12):

We are so very ‘umble.
He would make a lovely corpse.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
‘Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Quotes by Charles Dickens (13- 25)

There is a wisdom of the head and a wisdom of the heart.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
The civility which money will purchase is rarely extended to those who have none.
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate on one subject at a time.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed, but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

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21 quotes about success that will make you think

02/13/2024 by Roy Sutton

Many people say they want to be successful, but few achieve success in any meaningful way.

That said, one person’s success is another person’s failure.

We all have different ideas about what constitutes success.

For some people, it’s all about owning a million-dollar mansion, whereas for others, just being happy and content would be their measure of success.

What does success mean to you?

There are 21 thought-provoking quotes about success in today’s post to help you reflect on what success means to you.

However you choose to define success, it is possible to get to where you’d like to be with effort and determination.

Just decide where you want to go and don’t stop until you get there, though not before you’ve read today’s thought-provoking quotes about success.

Not only are they thought-provoking, but you should find them motivating and inspirational too, dear reader. I hope so, anyway.