74 Smiling Quotes to Change Your Mood

Smile quotes change your mood, change a lot in your life and your relationships with others, and offer great insight.
The psychologist Paul Ekman discovered that facial expressions have a degree of universality that transcends all time and space.
Each of these facial muscle movements expresses and reinforces one of the six basic emotions: anger, disgust, pleasure, fear, sadness, and surprise. But the strongest facial expression ever? the smile.
And when we smile, our muscles send reactions to our faces and improve our mood.

That is why we have collected some amazing smile quotes to improve your mood, add more smiles to your day, and make those around you happy.

74 quotes on smiles

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

“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

“The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.” – Bryant H. McGill

“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

“The robbed that smiles steal something from the thief.” – William Shakespeare

“I love those who can smile in trouble.”  – Leonardo da Vinci

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” – William Arthur Ward

“A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose. “ – Tom Wilson

“A smile doesn’t always stand for a perfect life.” – Faraaz Kazi

“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.” – William Hazlitt

“When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don’t wait until you feel better.” – Joel Osteen

“A smile is the best makeup any girl can wear.” – Marilyn Monroe

“Smiling is 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

“Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.” – Kenneth Branagh

“Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind’s tearing tension.” – Sri Chinmoy

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.” – Vidya Balan

“Use your smile to change the world; don’t let the world change your smile.” – Chinese Proverb

“You should never regret something that made you smile.” – Mei Maejor

“Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, and to hide every pain.” – Unknown

“That smile could move mountains. It could also break hearts. “ – Kylie Scott

“Teeth aren’t pearly until you smile.” – Anthony Liccione

“Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?” – Joel Osteen

“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile” – Mother Teresa

“Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Everyone smiles in the same language.” – George Carlin

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou

“Strong people are ones who can smile for others’ happiness.” – Veronica Purcell

“You’ll find that life is still worthwhile if you just smile.” – Charlie Chaplin

“Look back, and smile on perils past.” – Walter Scott

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

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” – Mark Twain

“It’s hard not to feel happy when you make someone smile.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa

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

“I can sing and dance. I can smile – a lot.”– Chris Colfer

“If you smile when you are alone, then you mean it.”– Andy Rooney

“Never regret anything that made you smile.”– Mark Twain

“A smile is the universal welcome.” – Max Eastman

“A smiling face is a beautiful face. A smiling heart is a happy heart.”– Dr. T.P. Chia

“The people who make you smile from just seeing them, those are my favorite people.”– Koi Fresco

“Keep a smile on your face and let your personality be your autograph.”– Unknown

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

“When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. “– Unknown

“If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” –Unknown

“Nothing shakes the smiling heart.”– Santosh Kalwar

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

“Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.”– Connie Stevens

“Smile! It increases your face value.”– Robert Harling

“Smile at the obstacle, for it is a bridge.”– Medusa

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

“If you’re not using your smile, you’re like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.”– Les Giblin

“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”– Yoko Ono

“You haven’t lost your smile at all, it’s right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.”– Anonymous

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A smile is a friend maker.”– Bangambiki Habyarimana

“I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”– Santosh Kalwar

“I wake up every day with a smile on my face.”– Henry Ian Cusick

“You don’t have to be happy to smile.” – Daniel Willey

“Before you put on a frown, make sure there are no smiles available.”– Jim Beggs

“Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark.”– Anonymous

“A smile cures the wounding of a frown.”– William Shakespeare

“The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.”– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.”– Lauren Graham

“Her smile, I’m sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”– Mark Z. Danielewski

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

“Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.” – Les Brown

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. “– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“The living should smile, for the dead cannot.”– George R.R. Martin

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

“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

“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