100+ Inspirational Quotes About Smiles to Brighten Your Day

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."

- Mother Teresa

"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them."

- Andre Maurois

"Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world."

- Lawrence G. Lovasik

"Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life."

- Yoko Ono

"A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles."

- William Hazlitt

"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer."

- William R. Alger

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."

- Washington Irving

"Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you."

- Anna Lee

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart."

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

"Don’t take life too seriously! Nobody gets out alive anyway. Smile. Be goofy. Take chances. Have fun. Inspire."

- Dawn Gluskin

"If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours."

- Dolly Parton

"Remember to smile."

- Nelson Mandela

"A simple smile. That’s the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others."

- Dalai Lama

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

- John Lennon

"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love."

- Maya Angelou

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

- Joseph Addison

"Smile, it's free therapy."

- Douglas Horton

"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."

- Tom Wilson

"Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you."

- Peace Pilgrim

"A smile is the best makeup any girl can wear."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

- Mother Teresa

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability."

- Joe Brown

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

- Phyllis Diller

"Everyone smiles in the same language."

- George Carlin

"Life is like a mirror. Smile at it, and it smiles back at you."

- Peace Pilgrim

"What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, and smile, smile, smile."

- George Henry Powell

"The greatest self is a peaceful smile that always sees the world smiling back."

- Bryant H. McGill

"Smile. It instantly lifts the face, and it just lights up the room."

- Christie Brinkley

"The source of a true smile is an awakened mind."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

- William Arthur Ward

"A simple smile. That's the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others."

- Dalai Lama

"I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything."

- Santosh Kalwar

"Smiling makes people feel good and positive, conveying a sense of good-will, rapport and trust."

- Dr. T.P.Chia

"It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime."

- Steve Maraboli

"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad."

- Christina Rossetti

"Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you."

- Les Brown

"To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile–that is happiness."

- Hermann Hesse

"When you smile at a stranger, there is already a minute outflow of energy. You become a giver."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Of all the medicines in the inner life, a smile is by far the best medicine."

- Sri Chinmoy

"If I can see pain in your eyes, then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes, then share with me your smile."

- Santosh Kalwar

"Smile at the obstacle, for it is a bridge."

- Medusa

"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning, and you'll start to see a big difference in your life."

- Yoko Ono

"Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace."

- Christie Brinkley

"You'll find that life is still worthwhile if you just smile."

- Charlie Chaplin

"I have many problems in life. But my lips don't know that. They always smile."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Smile at strangers, and you just might change a life."

- Steve Maraboli

"When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. When you stay on the high road and keep your joy, you take away their power."

- Joel Osteen

"Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart."

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

"Too often, we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

- Leo F. Buscaglia

"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"Smile is the beauty of the soul."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"It's hard not to feel happy when you make someone smile."

- Roy T. Bennett

"A smiling face is a beautiful face. A smiling heart is a happy heart."

- Dr. T.P.Chia

"I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile."

- Charles de Lint

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough."

- Richard M. DeVos

"If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give."

- Samson Raphael Hirsch

"Science teaches to think, but love teaches to smile."

- Santosh Kalwar

"One of the most rewarding things in life is to always put a smile on your face."

- Dr. T.P.Chia

"Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh and feel loved."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears."

- Demi Lovato

"If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet, all they do is wag their tails and fall over."

- Walter Anderson

"Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad."

- Christina Rossetti

"When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems."

- Etta James

"Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms."

- Thomas Gray

"And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick."

- Robert Powell

"As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!"

- Samuel Pepys

"Children learn to smile from their parents."

- Shinichi Suzuki

"Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again."

- Bret Harte

"If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it."

- Lucy Larcom

"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."

- George Eliot

"Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful."

- Rashida Jones

"Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been."

- Jimmy Buffett

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."

- Denis Waitley

"Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension."

- Sri Chinmoy

"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles."

- Muriel Spark

"Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone."

- Michael Jackson

"If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook."

- Les Giblin

"People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile."

- Judith Guest

"A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!"

- Tom Wilson

"A smile is the best way to get away with trouble, even if it's a fake one."

- Masashi Kishimoto

"Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky and senile, or that you're always smiling."

- Carlos Santana

"You can only hold a smile for so long; after that, it's just teeth."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Keep walking and keep smiling."

- Tiny Tim

"The people who make you smile from just seeing them, those are my favorite people."

- Koi Fresco

"Always wear a smile sometime during the day; it makes you feel happier and younger."

- Kylie Bax

"You don't have to be happy to smile."

- Daniel Willey

"Smile from your heart; nothing is more beautiful than a woman (person) who is happy to be herself."

- Kubra Sait

"All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile."

- Chris Hart

"A smile is a friend maker."

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

"Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips."

- Jill Shalvis

"If you're reading this…Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is."

- Chad Sugg

"The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?"

- African proverb

"Use your smile to change the world; don't let the world change your smile."

- Chinese Proverb

"Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back."

- Vanilla Ice

"Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground."

- Mark Z. Danielewski

"It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST."

- Lauren Graham

"Every smile makes you a day younger."

- Chinese Proverb

"A smile doesn't always stand for a perfect life."

- Faraaz Kazi

"That smile could move mountains. It could also break hearts."

- Kylie Scott

"A laugh is a smile out of control."

- Wyatt B. Pringle Jr

"An enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog."

- Connie Brockway

"Teeth aren't pearly until you smile."

- Anthony Liccione

"When you have to work, work with a smile."

- Kapil Dev

"It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets."

- Evelyn Lauder

"My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile."

- Victoria Beckham

"Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, “I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.”"

- Dale Carnegie

"More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back."

- Bryant H. McGill

"Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love."

- Rumi

"Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear and to hide every pain."

- Will Smith

"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"There is always a reason to smile. You just have to find it."

- De Philosopher DJ Kyos

"If you see somebody without a smile, give ’em yours!"

- Dolly Parton

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Remember me with smile and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it can last a lifetime. We should all smile more often."

- Steve Maraboli

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The smile is the shortest distance between two people, and the more we smile, the less we fight."

- Victor Borge

"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

- Leo Buscaglia

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

- Joseph Addison

"Keep smiling every day. Soon you will be able to smile, naturally, from your heart. Then from your tummy. Then with your whole body."

- Yoko Ono

"I think the smile belongs only to human beings. If we want those smiles, we must create the reasons that make them appear."

- The Dalai Lama

"Smile. It instantly lifts the face and it just lights up the room."

- Christie Brinkley

"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

- Mother Teresa

"A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it’s the greatest feeling in the world."

- Mandy Moore

"Life is a mirror: If you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile and a grateful heart."

- Zig Ziglar

"The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile. Always appreciate things, because (they) could be gone tomorrow."

- Ed Sheeran

"Smile and maybe tomorrow/ You’ll see the sun come shining through for you."

- Nat King Cole

"You’re never fully dressed without a smile."

- Martin Charnin

"Even a smile is a good deed."

- Shari Arison

"Appearances matter—and remember to smile."

- Nelson Mandela

"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."

- William Shakespeare

"The living should smile, for the dead cannot."

- George R.R. Martin

"How can you feel bad and smile simultaneously?"

- Maxime Lagacé

"There is little success where there is little laughter."

- Andrew Carnegie

"More can be taught with a single smile than with a whole year worth of lessons."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Smile! It increases your face value."

- Robert Harling

"Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile."

- Christian Nestell Bovee

"She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes."

- Giovannie de Sadeleer

"I wake up every day with a smile on my face."

- Henry Ian Cusick

"Dare, dream, dance, smile and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!"

- Suzanne Brockmann

"You've probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back."

- Shawn Achor

"You shouldn't never regret something that made you smile."

- Bei Maejor

"A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone, and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms."

- Og Mandino

"I am intrigued by the smile upon your face and the sadness within your eyes"

- Jeremy Aldana

"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"I come to work with a smile, and I leave with a laugh, and I'm so grateful."

- Robert Knepper

"The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles."

- Ogwo David Emenike

"Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more and don't get so worked up about things."

- Kenneth Branagh

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

- Mark Twain

"You've got to S-M-I-L-E To be H-A-P-P-Y."

- Shirley Temple Black

"When we learn to smile at life, we shall find that the problems we encounter dissolve."

- Donald Curtis

"If you’re not using your smile, you’re like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook."

- Les Giblin

"People with dimples have a divine role in this universe: smile!"

- Toba Beta

"Be happy. It really annoys negative people."

- Ricky Gervais

"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers."

- Maya Angelou

"A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks."

- Charles Gordy

"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired. Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision."

- Alysha Speer

"You’ve probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back."

- Shawn Achor

"I love those who can smile in trouble."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"There is fear when frowning. There is love when smiling."

- Maxime Lagacé

"Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful."

- Rashida Jones

"Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms."

- Og Mandino

"Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

"If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it."

- Andy Rooney

"You shouldn’t never regret something that made you smile."

- Bei Maejor

"I just want to make people smile."

- Julie Garwood

"Look back, and smile on perils past."

- Walter Scott

"You don’t have to be happy to smile."

- Daniel Willey

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."

- John Ray

"Just for today, smile a little more."

- James A. Murphy

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

"Nothing shakes the smiling heart."

- Santosh Kalwar

"A smile cures the wounding of a frown."

- William Shakespeare

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

- E. E. Cummings

"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."

- Connie Stevens

"Never regret anything that made you smile."

- Mark Twain

"People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile."

- Milton A. Lee

"You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile."

- Charlie Chaplin

"A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose."

- Tom Wilson

"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available."

- Jim Beggs

"Always keep your smile. That’s how I explain my long life."

- Jeanne Calment

"Smile, it’s free therapy."

- Douglas Horton

"I just like to smile. Smiling’s my favorite"

- Buddy The Elf

"Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person’s day. It’s all about paying it forward."

- Mariska Hargitay

"I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back."

- Heidi Klum

"I’ve had to learn to fight all my life—got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile, things will work out."

- Serena Williams

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."

- Thomas Paine

"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."

- Emily Dickinson

"A smile is the universal welcome."

- Max Eastman

"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life."

- Jeanne Calment

"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile."

- Goldie Hawn

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That’s all you need."

- Paulo Coelho

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Smile. It’s the second-best thing you can do with your lips."

- Jill Shalvis

"All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile."

- Chris Hart

"You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants."

- Stephen King

"I never smile unless I mean it."

- Donny Osmond

"Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot."

- Vera Nazarian

"Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick."

- Diane Keaton

"Look back and smile on perils past!"

- Sir Walter Scott

"Smiles, like humor, are the most serious and complex forms of communication used by human beings."

- Gayle Pemberton

"Everyone looks so much better when they smile."

- Jimmy Fallon

"Smiles are the soul’s kisses…"

- Minna Thomas Antrim

"Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over."

- Walter Inglis Anderson

"Twice I have lived forever in a smile."

- E.E. Cummings

"Colors are the smiles of nature."

- Leigh Hunt

"Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes."

- Katherine Mansfield

"Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening."

- Greta Garbo

"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Just to see you smile, I’d do anything that you wanted me to. When all is said and done, I’d never count the cost, it’s worth all that’s lost."

- Tim McGraw

"I’ve got nothing to do today but smile."

- Paul Simon

"I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it."

- Robert Smith

"I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better."

- Diane Lane

"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."

- Victor Hugo

"Smile. It’s the second best thing you can do with your lips."

- Jill Shalvis

"A smile is the best way to get away with trouble—even if it’s a fake one."

- Masashi Kishimoto

"Don’t cry for a man who’s left you—the next one may fall for your smile."

- Mae West

"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."

- W.C. Fields

"The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on."

- Robert Bloch

"Keep smiling—it takes 10 years off!"

- Jane Birkin

"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."

- Lord Byron

"You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy."

- Serena Williams

"But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next."

- Desmond Tutu

"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."

- Thomas S. Monson

"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."

- Raymond Chandler

"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."

- Herman Melville

"If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest."

- Kin Hubbard

"People who keep stiff upper lips find that it’s damn hard to smile."

- Judith Guest

"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours."

- Dolly Parton

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."

"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."

"Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth."

"If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy."

"Use your smile to change the world, but don't let the world change your smile."

"Smiling is my favorite exercise."

"The world always looks brighter from behind a smile."

"Smiling doesn't necessarily mean you're happy. Sometimes, it just means you're strong."

"Smile is the vainest thing you can wear without costing you anything."

"Silence and smiles are two powerful tools."

"Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile."

"A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear."

"There is always a reason to smile. Find it."

"Everyone should smile. Life really isn't that serious."

"One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger."

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."

"Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious."