128 Smile Quotes

Smiles are universal symbols of happiness, resilience, and the simple joys of life. Whether you're looking to brighten your own day or share a bit of positivity with others, the right quote can be a powerful tool. Our curated collection of the top 128 smile quotes is designed to inspire, uplift, and remind you of the beauty in sharing a smile. Dive into these words of wisdom and let the power of a smile transform your day.

1. “Peace begins with a smile..” - Mother Teresa

2. “What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?” - Rebecca Wells

3. “If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.” - Andy Rooney

4. “It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ” - Colette

5. “A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.” - Og Mandino

6. “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

7. “Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.” - Mother Teresa

8. “Well, that's an evil smile...” - James Patterson

9. “An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".” - Robert Louis Stevenson

10. “Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.” - Tessa Dare

11. “He smiled like he couldn't help it. She couldn't believe it. He was actally smiling, teeth and all. Had she ever seen him smile before? No, she realized, because right now, it was such a jarring thing to witness that for a moment it felt as though she was sharing the car with a stranger.” - Kelly Creagh

12. “I did not ask for consciousness, yet it came to me.And I had to know.Once again, I crawled away from my bed and pushed the computer cord back into the socket.It took three minutes.I quickly identified myself and put in my password.Then it thought.I wanted to bounce impatiently, but I couldn’t make myself move.At last, I found the internet, and I typed in a name, on the company page, under my account.I searched ‘images’.And there, on the screen in front of me, was the most beautiful person I’d ever seen.I couldn’t stop the tears from welling up and spilling over as I stared back at the smiling face.It couldn’t be him.It was.Derek Erickson.And I was going to kill him.” - Alysha Speer

13. “when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.” - Mitch Albom

14. “I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.” - Robert Jordan

15. “Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.” - Isobelle Carmody

16. “A tiny company, ‘the aware’, we have taken up civilization’s fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie.” - Iwan Goll

17. “إن السعادة تنتقل بالعدوى ..لا تنتظر عدوى أحد .. كن حاملاً لهذا الميكروب” - أنيس منصور

18. “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. Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy. Trust, even when your heart begs you not to. Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see. Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring. Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.” - Alysha Speer

19. “Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.” - Vera Nazarian

20. “Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.” - Greta Garbo

21. “تبسمك في وجه أخيك صدقة، وأمرك بالمعروف صدقة ونهيك عن المنكر صدقة، وإرشادك الرجل في أرض الضلال لك صدقة، ونصرك الرجل الرديء البصر لك صدقة، وإماطتك الحجر والشوك العظم عن الطريق لك صدقةSmiling in your brother’s face is an act of charity. So is enjoining good and forbidding evil, giving directions to the lost traveller, aiding the blind and removing obstacles from the path.(Graded authentic by Ibn Hajar and al-Albani: Hidaayat-ur-Ruwaah, 2/293)” - Anonymous

22. “But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles” - Anna Nalick

23. “Why be alone when we can be together babyYou can make my life worthwhileAnd I can make you start to smile” - Mr. Big

24. “But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine” - Jack Johnson

25. “We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love.” - Santosh Kalwar

26. “My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It's not as if I'm never friendly. Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.” - Suzanne Collins

27. “it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!” - Kenny Chesney

28. “And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.” - Suzanne Collins

29. “Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the sort of smile with which his lordship beguiled his flirts, but something warmer and more intimate. Good God! mentally ejaculated Mr. Moreton. Sits the wind in that quarter?” - Georgette Heyer

30. “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

31. “You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.” - Al Capone

32. “Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. Please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. It's your sorrow, but what about your baby? It's not his sorrow, its not her sorrow.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

33. “The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.” - Malcolm de Chazal

34. “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

35. “Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of her felt permanently incapacitated except her noble expression. Like a strip of lip-colored lead suspended from her poor little nose by two tugging wire-gray wrinkles her persistently conscientious sickroom smile seemed to be whanging aimlessly against her front teeth. The sensation certainly was very unpleasant.” - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

36. “Song of myselfSmile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset--earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth--rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.” - Walt Whitman

37. “Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.” - Steve Maraboli

38. “You've got to S-M-I-L-ETo be H-A-Double-P-Y” - Shirley Temple

39. “He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.” - Julia Quinn

40. “...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.” - Michael Cadnum

41. “Nothing shakes the smiling heart.” - Santosh Kalwar

42. “Words of sincere felt in heart and trigger smile.” - Toba Beta

43. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, allof which have the potential to turn a life around.” - Leo F. Buscaglia

44. “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

45. “She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time” - Ann Brashares

46. “I smiled back and I thoughthow incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.” - Jenny Valentine

47. “If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.” - Kin Hubbard

48. “I live for those who love me, for those who know me true; for the heaven that smiles above me and awaits my spirit too. For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.” - George Linnaeus Banks

49. “Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the left.There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many people have this nervous trick of a crooked smile, and in many it is even attractive. But in all Syme's circumstances, with the dark dawn and the deadly errand and the loneliness on the great dripping stones, there was something unnerving in it. There was the silent river and the silent man, a man of even classic face. And there was the last nightmare touch that his smile suddenly went wrong.” - G.K. Chesterton

50. “He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water.” - Paula Fox

51. “I hate when you have to smile for me..so nice if you'd do that spontaneously.” - Toba Beta

52. “Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -” - Thomas Harris

53. “Change the world, I know I won’t,Enthralling as always I hope it remains,A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.But my only wish as I take this jaunt,Is for my words on you to impress upon,A smile, a tear or even an angry frown.” - Anurag Anand

54. “I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes” - Jeremy Aldana

55. “I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.” - Adriana Trigiani

56. “She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.” - Maud Hart Lovelace

57. “I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women’s faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.” - Anais Nin

58. “And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.” - Connie Brockway

59. “A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.” - Masashi Kishimoto

60. “People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

61. “You’re doing it again,” he said.“Doing what?” I asked, wondering if I had done something wrong.“Melting my heart with your smile,” he said.” - Mary Ting

62. “For once I didn't look away immediately. I forced myself to meet her contemptuous gaze. I allowed myself be swept away by it, to drown in it - the way I'd done so many times before. The way I would willingly do again. Because at least she was here to hate me. At least I had that. I watched my daughter conjure up the filthiest look in her vast arsenal before she turned away with complete disdain. I didn't mind that so much. It meant I could watch her, drink her in without her protest. Look at our daughter, Callum. Isn't she beautiful, so very beautiful? She laughs like me, but when she smiles... Oh Callum, when she smiles, it's picnics in Celebration Park and sunsets on our beach and our very first kiss all over again. When Callie Rose smiles at me, she lights up my life.When Callie Rose smiles at me.” - Malorie Blackman

63. “Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile.” - Santosh Kalwar

64. “It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.” - Carol Birch

65. “Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!” - Sir Edwin Arnold

66. “Smile is the vainest thing you can wear without costing you anything” - bheng927

67. “Never in LIfe will you disappoint yourself if you stay true to you!” - Nicety

68. “You shouldn’t never regret something that made you smile” - Bei Maejor

69. “If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.” - Melody Carstairs

70. “He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look amiable” - Emma Goldrick

71. “Valkyrie Cain got out of the passenger side. She zipped upher black jacket against the cold, and joined Skulduggery as hewalked up to the front door. She glanced at him, and saw that he was smiling."Stop doing that,” she sighed.“Stop doing what?” Skulduggery responded in that gloriously velvet voice of his.“Stop smiling. The person we want to talk to lives in the only dark house on a bright street. That’s not a good sign.”“I didn’t realise I was smiling,” he said. They stopped at the door, and Skulduggery made a concerted effort to shift his features. His mouth twitcheddownwards. “Am I smiling now?”“No.”“Excellent,” he said, and the smile immediately sprang back up.” - Derek Landy

72. “The smile upon my lips, 
It will surely never die 
As I'm waiting here for you 
until you're by my side.” - Freida Martinez

73. “..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.” - Henry James

74. “And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.” - Markus Zusak

75. “Smile awhile and while you smile - another smiles, and soon there are miles and miles of smiles and life's worth while because you smile.” - Kathleen J. Edgar

76. “The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles.” - Ogwo David Emenike

77. “Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for most of her life, smiles never came easily to her face. But this one was half all right."I miss you already," he said.Tiger Lily wanted to say it back. But she held on to the words greedily, too caught in the habit of keeping herself a secret. And Peter-half sadly, half-expectantly-let her go.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

78. “He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.” - Caroline Green

79. “You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.” - Gene Kelly

80. “There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.” - Neil Gaiman

81. “You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.” - Lucy Christopher

82. “A journey of a thousand mile begins with a SMiLE” - Bernard Kelvin Clive

83. “Just one smileImmensely increases the beauty Of the universe.” - Sri Chinmoy

84. “Look at your heart-flower and smile.You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.” - Sri Chinmoy

85. “So, he, uhm, all ac/ac, or a little ac/dc?" she asked, blushing, and Chase's grin about swallowed his face."He claims to be ac/dc," he said, watching her face light up completely.” - Amy Lane

86. “There are two days in the year that you cannot do anything: YESTERDAY & TOMORROW: Only TODAY you can Be Happy, Smile, Dream, Love, Feel, & Be Thankful…” - Pablo

87. “All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.” - Chris Hart

88. “Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as far as she could into the water. Octavian made a squeaking sound. "What was that for? I didn't say toss it! That could've been evidence. Or spoils of war!"Annabeth tried for a dumb-blonde smile, like: Oh, silly me. Nobody who knew her would have been fooled. But Octavian seemed to buy it. He huffed in exasperation. "You other two..." He pointed his blade a Hazel and Piper. "Put your weapons on the dock. No funny bus--"All around the Romans, Charleston Harbor erupted like a Las Vegas fountain putting on a show. When the wall of seawater subsided, the three Romans were in the bay, spluttering and frantically trying to stay afloat in their armor. Percy stood on the dock, holding Annabeth's dagger. "You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced.” - Rick Riordan

89. “Teeth aren't pearly, until you smile.” - Anthony Liccione

90. “You should step in my shoesWalk for a whileand maybe you will see how hard it isto hold back the tears and fake a smile” - Elizabeth Panos

91. “Girls are always at their best smiling.” - Clamp

92. “You act like you're okay,Like everything is just fine.But you can't hide a frown,And smile at the same time.” - Mimi Shannon

93. “There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.” - Raymond Chandler

94. “She smiled and her whole face lit up. Or maybe it was mine. All I know for certain is that smile lit up even my darkest days.” - J. Sterling

95. “I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.” - Anthony Liccione

96. “The greatest weapon that one can have is a simple...smile.” - Lionel Suggs

97. “Madoka: I want to erase the tears of all those who trusted in hope. I want them to be left with a smile on their faces.” - Magica Quartet

98. “We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.” - Sheila Heti

99. “Jacob: "Let her stare."Terra: "What?"Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.” - Justina Chen Headley

100. “An honest smile is an icebreaker.” - Toba Beta

101. “For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.” - Dejan Stojanovic

102. “They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.” - Dejan Stojanovic

103. “To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.” - Dejan Stojanovic

104. “The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.” - Minhal Mehdi

105. “I laugh with them because it is one of the worst things to be in a room full of people and not laughting when everybody else is.” - M.J. Hayland

106. “Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come.” - Tegan Quin

107. “Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.” - Coco J. Ginger

108. “I'm wearing this fake smile.” - Daae ALF

109. “Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring.” - Nadège Richards

110. “...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..” - John Geddes

111. “It always looked to me like she was smiling. In fact, I know she was. Lots if things smile, like a flower to the sun. And one thing sure. I knew that just like I could smile to see Pinky, she sure could smile to see me.” - Robert Newton Peck

112. “Try smiling at people, you never know how one smile can affect their day.” - Benjamin Bayani

113. “الضحكة تَبدأ مِن عينيك!” - مريد البرغوثي

114. “We never know what a day will bring us, but one thing we do know is that every morning we can wake up, smile and hope for the best. SMILE IT'S A NEW DAY” - Ellen K. Wookey

115. “لا تتحدث عن أحمالك ولولا مِئة وَجَع تلحُّ عليك أنت .. خُلقتَ .. للبهجة !” - مريد البرغوثي

116. “One smile has the power to...Calm fears.Soften stone walls.Warm a cold heart.Invite a new friend.Mimic a loving hug.Beautify the bearer.Lighten heavy loads.Promote good deeds.Brighten a gloomy day.Comfort a grieving spirit.Offer hope to the forlorn.Send a message of caring.Lift the downtrodden soul.Patch up invisible wounds.Weaken the hold of misery.Act as medicine for suffering.Attract the companionship of angels.Fulfill the human need for recognition.Who knew changing the world would prove so simple?” - Richelle E. Goodrich

117. “My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.” - R.J. Palacio

118. “Smile is a good reply to the dark world.” - Mehmet Murat ildan

119. “when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back.” - Brittany Perloff

120. “The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

121. “I've a habit of placing a happy-face or a frowny-face on my calendar, depending on what kind of day I've had.  Often I slap a droopy circle in the box, discouraged by the things I failed to accomplish and the unpleasant encounters endured.  But then, invariably, a wise muse stops to ask me these three questions:  Did your children let you hug them today?  Yes.  Did you do a kind deed for someone?  Anyone?  Yes.  Did God forsake you today?  No.  Then, my dear, despite your challenges, it was a good day after all.  Standing corrected,  I twist that frowny-face upside down and smile.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

122. “It's easy enough to smile at a man if you want to capture his attention, but once you realize he's not really looking at you, that perhaps he never really saw you, smiling becomes much more difficult” - Ashlyn Macnamara

123. “To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

124. “I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home.” - Steve Maraboli

125. “Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.” - Gary D. Schmidt

126. “Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret.” - Bob Smith

127. “Though a smile is little work, its effects are long lasting.” - Bucky Buckbinder

128. “Don't be afraid to be who you are, we were created to perfect in our own imperfect way.” - Kendal Rob