100+ Smile Inspirational Quotes to Brighten Your Day and Lift Your Spirit

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

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Dawn Gluskin

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

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Dalai Lama

"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

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Mother Teresa

"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

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Joe Brown

"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

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

- Washington Irving

"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

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Christie Brinkley

"When I wake up, I smile because I'm alive and ready to succeed"

- Raul Perez

"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

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

- Richelle E. Goodrich

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

- Kenneth Branagh

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Dr. T.P.Chia

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

- Charlie Chaplin

"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

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

- Jeanne Calment

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

- Mark Twain

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

- Charles de Lint

"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

"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

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

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Christie Brinkley

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

- Lauren Graham

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

- Daniel Willey

"Every smile makes you a day younger."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Faraaz Kazi

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

- Kapil Dev

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

- Victoria Beckham

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Thomas Paine

"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

"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

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

- Christina Rossetti

"I never smile unless I mean it."

- Donny Osmond

"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

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

- Andre Maurois

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Diane Lane

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

- Samuel Pepys

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

- Bret Harte

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"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

"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

"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 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

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

- John Lennon

"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

"A smile is the universal welcome."

- Max Eastman

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Dr. T.P.Chia

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Peace Pilgrim

"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

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

- Bryant H. McGill

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Kubra Sait

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Yoko Ono

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Tom Wilson

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- Demi Lovato

"Smile, it's free therapy."

- Douglas Horton

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

- Ogwo David Emenike

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

- John Ray

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

"A smile cures the wounding of a frown."

- William Shakespeare

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

- E. E. Cummings

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"Never regret anything that made you smile."

- Mark Twain

"Everyone smiles in the same language."

- George Carlin

"I love those who can smile in trouble."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

"Remember to smile."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Daniel Willey

"Smile, it’s free therapy."

- Douglas Horton

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

- Peace Pilgrim

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

- Phyllis Diller

"Be happy. It really annoys negative people."

- Ricky Gervais

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

- Jill Shalvis

"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

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

- Connie Stevens

"Just for today, smile a little more."

- James A. Murphy

"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

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Christina Rossetti

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

- Medusa

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

- Suzanne Brockmann

"Smile is the beauty of the soul."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

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

- Santosh Kalwar

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

- Sri Chinmoy

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

- Anthony T. Hincks

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

"I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile."

- Adriana Lima

"Colors are the smiles of nature."

- Leigh Hunt

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

- Jill Shalvis

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

- Vanilla Ice

"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Thomas S. Monson

"Children learn to smile from their parents."

- Shinichi Suzuki

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

- Kylie Scott

"A laugh is a smile out of control."

- Wyatt B. Pringle Jr

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

- Tom Wilson

"Teeth aren't pearly until you smile."

- Anthony Liccione

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- Desmond Tutu

"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

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Maxime Lagacé

"How can you feel bad and smile simultaneously?"

- Maxime Lagacé

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

- Kin Hubbard

"Smile! It increases your face value."

- Robert Harling

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

- Giovannie de Sadeleer

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

- Toba Beta

"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

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

- Charles Gordy

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

- Andy Rooney

"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs."

- Malcolm de Chazal

"Nothing shakes the smiling heart."

- Santosh Kalwar

"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Raymond Chandler

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

- Muriel Spark

"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief."

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

- Mark Z. Danielewski

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

- Connie Brockway

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

- Herman Melville

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

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

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

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

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

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

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