104 Smile Quotes To Make Your Day Special And Happy

We are all in our own pursuit of happiness. Who doesn’t love to smile? While jokes and funny anecdotes can turn that frown upside down, so can some of the “smile” quotes listed below!

A smile may not make the world go around, but it sure makes the trip, that is, life, worthwhile! Sometimes we can get caught up in sadness, and everything seems morose to us. A simple smile can turn your whole mood around. Maybe you had a bad day at work or fought with someone important in your life. And now you’re struggling with making yourself smile. Or maybe you know someone who is sad and needs a spark of joy in their life. Here are 104 quotes about smiling that are sure to clear out the gray clouds in your life and give way to bright and beautiful days!

Quotes To Make You Smile

1. “A smile is a facelift that’s in everyone’s price range!” ​– Tom Wilson
2. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
3. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is a spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
4. “The talent of being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” – Woody Allen
5. “When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.” – Anonymous
6. “Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are.” – Germany Kent
7. “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan
8. “People should find happiness in the little things, like family.” – Amanda Bynes
9. “Happiness depends on yourself.” – Aristotle
10. “If you want to give light to others, you have to glow yourself.” – Anonymous
11. “Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things.” – Maxime Lagacé
12. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” – Steve Maraboli

Did You Know?

Smiling releases endorphins and serotonin that can elevate the “feel good” experience. It can relax the senses, elevate one’s mood, and even reduce physical pain.

13. “A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.” – Tom Wilson
14. “When you love what you have, you have everything you need.” – Anonymous

15. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy. It’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
16. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
17. “Being happy never goes out of style.” – Lilly Pulitzer
18. “The mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson
19. “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.” – Goldie Hawn
20. “Happiness comes in waves. It’ll find you again.” – Anonymous
21. “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy

Trivia

Leo Tolstoy believed in his early years that happiness comes from success and social status. Later on in life, he was of the opinion that happiness lies in living a meaningful life by serving others and leading a simple life.

22. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa
23. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
24. “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
25. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
26. “Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.” – Anonymous
27. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
28. “Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” – Hosea Ballou
29. “Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.” – J. Petit Senn
30. “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison
31. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou
32. “It’s the little things in life that matter.” – Anonymous
33. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” – Marilyn Monroe
34. “You should never regret something that made you smile.” – Mei Maejor
35. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

36. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon
37. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
38. “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. “One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.” – Anonymous
40. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl

41. “I have only two kinds of days – Happy and Hysterically Happy.” – Allen J. Lefferdink
42. “It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I’d rather spend my energy smiling.” – Eric Davis
43. “If you’re not using your smile, you’re like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no check book.” – Les Giblin

42. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz
43. “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney
44. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” – Mark Twain
45. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
46. “Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.” – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
47. “The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.” – Dodinsky
48. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” – John Lennon
49. “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself – I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.” – Groucho Marx
50. “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.” – Benjamin Franklin
51. “The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself.” – Ellen DeGeneres
52. “More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” – Roy T. Bennett
53. “Sometimes we must look outside our own backyards to realize how big the world is and how blessed we are.” – Eugene Nathaniel Butler
54. “Concentrate on counting your blessings and you’ll have little time to count anything else.” – Woodrow Kroll
55. “Don’t just count your blessings. Be the blessing other people count on.” – Anonymous
56. “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu
57. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

60. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly Curtin
61. “You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.” – Evan Esar
62. “It’s okay to be a glow stick; sometimes we need to break before we shine.” – Anonymous
63. “If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” –Dolly Parton
64. “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” – Phyllis Diller
65. “Smile… it will either warm their heart or piss them off… either way, you win.” – Anonymous
66. “Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.” – Connie Stevens
67. “All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.” – Chris Hart
68. “I have many problems in life. But my lips don’t know that. They always smile.” – Charlie Chaplin
69. “A smile is the best makeup any girl can wear.” – Marilyn Monroe
70. “Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.” – Anonymous
71. “Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.” – Carlos Santana
72. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
73. “What sunshine is to flowers; smiles are to humanity.” – Joseph Addison
74. “You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” – Michael Pritchard
75. “A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.” – O. G Mandino
76. “Never underestimate the importance of having a person in your life who can always make you smile.” – Anonymous
77. “Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.” – Roy T. Bennett
78. “Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” – George Eliot

79. “If you don’t start out the day with a smile, it’s not too late to start practicing for tomorrow.” – Anonymous
80. “The living should smile, for the dead cannot.” – George R.R. Martin
81. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr
82. “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – Nicolas Chamfort
83. “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen
84. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
85. “Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan
86. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
87. “If you want to give light to others, you have to glow yourself.” – Thomas S. Monson
88. “It doesn’t matter who hurt you, or broke you down. What matters is who made you smile again.” – Anonymous
89. “Someday we will find what we are looking for. Or maybe not. Maybe we’ll find something much greater than that.” – Anonymous
90. “Love is what makes you smile when you are tired.” – Paulo Coelho
91. “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
92. “Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.” – Leo Rosten
93. “Let your smile change the world but don’t let the world change your smile.” – Connor Franta
94. “Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his worst.” – Lauren Graham
95. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus
96. “You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it.” – Henepola Gunaratana
97. “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Now, check out the section below to choose the best quote curated especially for your lady love.

Smile Quotes For Her

98. “And in her smile, I see something more beautiful than the stars.” – Anonymous
99. “Her smile is the simplest miracle that she can create anytime.” – Tara Estacaan
100. “There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.”- Dorothy Dix
101. “She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes.” – Giovannie de Sadeleer
102. “A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.” – Thomas Chandler Haliburton
103. “The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile.” – Bob Marley
104. “Her smile put the sunflower to shame.” – Jerry Spinelli

Watch the following video to discover a collection of inspiring smile quotes to brighten your face and your day. This video imparts a dose of much-needed positivity and motivation with its uplifting messages that celebrate the power of a smile.

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