Positive Emotions: Smile Quotes

Smile is a simple gesture that lifts mood, softens stress, and opens doors to connection. These quotations reflect how a smile can nurture optimism, courage, and kindness in daily life. Browse short, classic, and contemporary lines that encourage warmth, gratitude, and resilience. Let them remind you to notice small joys, share encouragement, and carry lightness into every moment. Suitable for quick inspiration or mindful reflection.

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

Dr. Seuss, Writer

Dr. Seuss

"A laugh is a smile that bursts"

Mary H. Waldrip, Editor

Mary H. Waldrip

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

Phyllis Diller

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

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Most smiles are started by another smile"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

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

Tom Wilson, Cartoonist

"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, Leader

Paramahansa Yogananda

"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right"

Greg Norman, Athlete

Greg Norman

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword"

John Ray, Environmentalist

"If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others"

Dalai Lama, Leader

Dalai Lama

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

Charlie Chaplin

"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

Robert Baden-Powell

"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, Writer

Joseph Addison

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

Denis Waitley, Writer

Denis Waitley

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

Tom Wilson, Cartoonist

"A smile is the universal welcome"

Max Eastman, Author

Max Eastman

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

Judith Guest, Novelist

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

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

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

Mother Teresa, Leader

Mother Teresa

"I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

Miley Cyrus

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress, one can wear in society"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Andre Maurois, Writer

Andre Maurois

"Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"As long as you live, keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day"

Vin Scully, Celebrity

Vin Scully

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

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

Charles de Lint, Writer

"I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

Shannon Miller

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

Greta Garbo, Actress

Greta Garbo

"And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me, too"

Jim Valvano, Coach

Jim Valvano

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

Jeanne Calment, Celebrity

"I think laughter is the best medicine, and if you can't laugh, just smile"

June Carter Cash, Musician

June Carter Cash

"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"The bat is gone, but the smile remains"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

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

Goldie Hawn, Actress

Goldie Hawn

"The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

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