Will Smith Quotes

You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I can control my destiny; I control my life.

Nobody is powerless.

I'm in a situation where I can determine my own future.

Life doesn't just happen. You happen to life. You decide how you want to write your story.

Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'd rather be able to know that I've made a choice that's right for me, than saying yes because I don't want my agents to be upset with me.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

We can act instead of being acted upon.