Will Smith Quotes

I don't want to be one of those could have, would have, should have kind of guys.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

I don't think people in England ever saw the best of me.

If I didn't finish high school, I would wonder about that part of my life.

I didn't finish college, and I was very sad about that because I don't think I gave myself a chance to learn, to prove to myself that I could learn.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

After all, didn't I blow a magnificent career?

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

I am sick at heart at the mistakes and lost opportunities that are so prevalent.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was.