Smile Quotes

"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."
— Thomas S. Monson
All Smile Quotes

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

— John Lennon

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

— William Arthur Ward

"Peace begins with a smile."

— Mother Teresa

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."

— Khalil Gibran

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

— E.E. Cummings

"Let your smile change the world. Do not let the world change your smile."

— Connor Franta

"Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you will start to see a big difference in your life."

— Yoko Ono

"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me."

— Thich Nhat Hanh

"I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing."

— Tom Hiddleston

"I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere."

— Dane Cook

"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."

— Cyril Connolly

"A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."

— Anne Roiphe

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."

— Ashley Smith

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

— Rabindranath Tagore

"Beauty is power a smile is its sword."

— John Ray

"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat."

— Joanne Woodward

"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits."

— William Hazlitt

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

— Virginia Woolf

"The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history."

— Dalai Lama

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

— Maya Angelou

"So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."

— Zora Neale Hurston

"I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land."

— Chief Joseph

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."

— Robert Fulghum

"Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done."

— Charles Wesley

"The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it."

— Joan Rivers

"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."

— Joan Lunden

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

— Khalil Gibran

"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."

— Anne Lamott

"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."

— Robert Louis Stevenson

"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."

— Elbert Hubbard

"There is little success where there is little laughter."

— Andrew Carnegie

"Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations."

— Red Skelton

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

— Tom Wilson

"As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh."

— Daniel Radcliffe

"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough."

— Richard M. DeVos

"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

— John Adams

"Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale."

— Will Durst

"Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."

— Susanna Moodie

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

— Dr. Seuss

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."

— Leo Buscaglia

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