53 Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes About Life (LOVE)

Top 10 Most Famous Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes (BEST)

“You always have to remember to take care of yourself first and foremost, because when you stop taking care of yourself you get out of balance and you really forget how to take care of others.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships. — My **belief** is that **communication** is the best way to create strong **relationships**.

Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap. — Worry about being **respected**, never worry about being liked because that’s the trap.

We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger. — We don’t back off **obstacles** and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.

I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.

“Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else’s mind. When you’re OK, you don’t need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

Sometimes our biggest treasures and our biggest lessons are in the zones of discomfort.

Passion and fire come and go, but friendship lasts forever. — **Passion** and fire come and go, but **friendship** lasts forever.

It's more of a life partnership… I don't own him. He doesn't own me. He has to be his own person first, and vice versa… Love is freedom. — It’s more of a life **partnership**… I don’t own him. He doesn’t own me. He has to be his own person first, and vice versa… **Love** is **freedom**.

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world. — I do a lot of **reading**, **meditating**, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

9 Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes on Love and Relationships

“I’ve always told Will, ‘You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.’ Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I’m here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that’s not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly. — **Will** and I are yin and yang. He’s all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I’m all earth. I’m here to ground him, and he’s here to help me fly.

You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love... how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. — You know, as I get older, personal **happiness** is all about **love**… how I’m loved and how I love my **family** and my husband.

“I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I’ve seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me. — What you’re willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love – at least it is for me.

Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you. — Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly **loves** you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.

“I am kind of a ride-or-die chick. I just knew with the kind of love that Will and I share — which is beyond romantic love — that we could transform our union and figure out how to re-create what we had.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we’re not so happy. — **Love** is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we’re not so happy.

For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love. — For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that’s the power of love.

3 Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes on Parenting

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life. — It’s not about what you tell your **children**, but how you show them how to live **life**.

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership. — I think that old school style of ‘I’m your parent and I’m greater than you’ doesn’t work. What I establish with my **children** is a partnership.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board. — We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our **children**, that’s really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

10 Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes to Empower Women

“For every woman it’s important that we recognize that we have the right to figure out what works for us personally. We don’t have to do what everyone else is doing. If we are good, our family is going to be good.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

A friend taught me that that it’s okay and good and safe for women to take time and talk with each other. — A friend taught me that that it’s okay and good and safe for women to take **time** and talk with each other.

“I want to tell every mother that you can have a loving family and you can have your dreams, you can. We might not have everything that we thought we’d have but we can have that love and we can have ourselves.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

I don't think we know, culturally, what women like in regards to sex. Because women have not been allowed to explore in the same way as men. — I don’t think we know, **culturally**, what women like in regards to sex. Because women have not been allowed to **explore** in the same way as men.

“Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? Because I bet that if you love it authentically, everybody else around you will. They won’t even have a chance to see anything else, because you will have a shield of confidence around you. That is a powerful gift that God gives us that most of us rarely use.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

There’s a lot of shame we carry in our skin but a lot of healing can come from us confronting our bodies and scraping off the shame. — There’s a lot of shame we carry in our skin but a lot of **healing** can come from us confronting our bodies and scraping off the shame.

“I’ve always believed a woman’s superpower is how deep she can love, you know? And one of the things growing up in Baltimore, I grew up around a lot of Black women that didn’t have, necessarily, resources to give, right? But they had their strength and they had their love to offer.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

I can be formidable and feminine. It took me a long time to realize that. Now I’m able to be strong but not feel like I’ve got to act like a dude.

“Let me be clear, I don’t think women have to make a sacrifice. They have a choice-always. But here’s the deal: You ask yourself, What can you live with? And for me, that question was easy to answer. But good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

3 Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes on Happiness

You've got to be happy in your own skin. — You’ve got to be **happy** in your own skin.

I really thought happiness had a lot to do with pleasure, and I realized that happiness is about peace. — I really thought **happiness** had a lot to do with pleasure, and I realized that happiness is about **peace**.

That to me is happiness when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness. — That to me is **happiness** when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to **love** deeply. That to me is happiness.

9 Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes that will make you think

“I try my best to confront situations because I know, at the end of the day, you can deal with it or it will deal with you. I’ve had enough experience to know that that’s how it goes down. There’s no going around it.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

“The ego will never fail to strangle the love out of one’s heart if we allow it to take center stage in our relationships. Transferring our trust to our hearts from our egos is a painful process in learning HOW to love. BUT… through it all… when we finally get to the place where we can give and receive love in its most pure state… ego free… it is only ever… beauty.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

When you've walked through the darkness of your own heart and mind… there is no shadow you fear. — When you’ve walked through the darkness of your own heart and mind… there is no shadow you **fear**.

“Do whatever rejuvenates you. It might be a cooking class, cocktails with the girls, or just private time with the hubby. We all have our moments where we run out of steam because we’ve given everything we’ve got to everyone else. Whoever decided that was a good thing? It’s not. Everyone needs to refuel.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul. — Human spirit, things that aren’t tangible, fascinate me, so I’m always researching mind, spirit, soul.

Sometimes God puts things in your way so that you get a real understanding.

“We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can’t wait until a person is 18 years old and say, ‘Now you have the right’. You have to start that from the gate.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

I do call upon a little Fish Mooney energy sometimes, believe it or not.

9 Wise Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes to Live By (WISDOM)

“Don’t take your health for granted. Don’t take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.' — When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’

When I believe in something, I'm very passionate. I don't take 'no' for an answer. — When I **believe** in something, I’m very **passionate**. I don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

“I don’t get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy and I’m not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked and it’s paralyzing.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money. — I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn’t have to worry about making **money**.

“I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn’t set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don’t want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.”
Jada Pinkett Smith

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked. — Don’t trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

“I’m not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever.”
Jada Pinkett Smith