78 Inspiring Quotes About Smiles

A smile is one of the most powerful expressions of human emotions—it's universal, contagious, and it speaks louder than words. Whether it lights up a room, brightens someone's day, or reflects genuine joy, a smile carries immense power. In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, it's easy to overlook the simple yet profound impact a smile can have on ourselves and those around us. Dive into our carefully selected collection of the top 78 inspiring quotes about smiles. Each quote is a gentle reminder of the beauty and significance of sharing a smile with the world, encouraging us to embrace and spread positivity in every possible way.

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

2. “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

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

4. “You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.” - Chuck Palahniuk

5. “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

6. “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

7. “The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.” - Laurie Lee

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

9. “And metaphors like cats behind your smile,Each one wound up to purr,each one a pride,Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)” - Ray Bradbury

10. “It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.” - Steve Maraboli

11. “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

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

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

14. “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

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

16. “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

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

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

19. “... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.” - Brad Thor

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

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

22. “The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile.” - Santosh Kalwar

23. “People with dimple have a divine role in this universe: smile!” - Toba Beta

24. “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

25. “There is thin line between smile and laughter.” - Santosh Kalwar

26. “Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.” - Michael Jackson

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

28. “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

29. “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

30. “The pimp has a grin, never a smile.” - Jean Genet

31. “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

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

33. “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

34. “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

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

36. “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

37. “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

38. “Are you going to be nice to me now?""I'm always nice to you." Sure. Law ground his chin into Tom's groin, makingTom jump."Why would I suddenly start being nice to you?" Law said. "You put out for an asshole. That guy is still here.” - Jez Morrow

39. “I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.” - Markus Zusak

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

41. “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

42. “A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

43. “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

44. “No matter how fleeting Your smile is,Your smile is the very beginningOf your wisdom-light.” - Sri Chinmoy

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

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

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

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

49. “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

50. “Pete offered tobacco and paper, but Claude brought out his cigarettes and they both decided to try those. Pete provided the match. When he had their cigarettes burning strongly he turned to look back at the road, then straight up ahead. "We'll get there for supper if we get there," he said, and Claude laughed. Pete was a young man, but had a wild old grin stretched all out of shape in the corners and punched full of holes.” - Douglas Woolf

51. “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

52. “Joshua se quedó asombrado. Pero no tan asombrado como yo por lo que acababa de decir. No hacía ni veinte horas que había plantado a Sven en el altar, ¿y ya quería salir con un tío sólo para verle reír?” - David Safier

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

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

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

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

59. “I've always been super aware that we could all die at any moment. This ceiling could fall. I could trip and land on this pen I'm holding. I could choke on my cold pasta lunch. I could be attacked by that pigeon eying me from my window sill. I could be shot...by a stranger...who lost something in their heart. Remember death is real. It's not scary. Living is the thing to care about. Don't hold grudges. Smile and make others smile as often as possible. Don't let jerks run the world.” - Colleen AF Venable

60. “One who smiles rather than angers is always stronger.” - David Schary

61. “We smile but I want more. I want her to hug me.” - M.J. Hayland

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

63. “Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.” - J. Sidlow Baxter

64. “He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything."I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, "I`m not beau-"- "You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman."- "Never seen it."- "Really?" he asked. "Pixie-haired gorgeous girl dislikes authority and can`t help but fall for a boy she knows is trouble. It`s your autobiography, so far as I can tell."His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn`t even know that guys could turn me on - not, like, in real life.” - John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

65. “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

66. “Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.” - Anne Holm

67. “A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.” - Clemmie Galati

68. “Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.” - Belinda Jeffrey

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

70. “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

71. “There's enchantment in a smile, did you know?Shall I prove in a wink that it is so?Watch my mouth grin wide and see,How quick your lips smile back at me!” - Richelle E. Goodrich

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

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

76. “Don’t smile,” he said.” - Aimee Bender

77. “every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing” - Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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