Smile Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective | GloryQuotes

Short Smile Quotes

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Rabindranath Tagore

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Samuel Smiles

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Inspirational Smile Quotes

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

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

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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

Andre Maurois

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Lord Acton

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Positive Smile Quotes

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Hermann Hesse

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Christopher Lasch

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Emily Dickinson

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Malcolm De Chazal

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

J. B. Priestley

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

More Smile Quotes

The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean de la Bruyere

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Simon Wiesenthal

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Barry Cornwall

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

Christina Rossetti

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

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

Zebulon Pike

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

Charles de Lint

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Isaac Barrow

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Marguerite Gardiner

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

William Arthur Ward

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

Harold Pinter

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

Tom Wilson

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Thomas S. Monson

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

William R. Alger

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

Andy Rooney

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Mother Teresa

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Herman Melville

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

Karl Shapiro

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Malcolm De Chazal

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Abraham Cahan

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

Douglas Horton

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

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

Judith Guest

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Jean Giraudoux

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Guy de Maupassant

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

Dr. Seuss

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

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

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

Theodor Herzl

Most smiles are started by another smile.

Frank Howard Clark

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

Tom Wilson

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Walter Scott

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Samuel Pepys

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

James Larkin

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

Alma Guillermoprieto

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

Simon Travaglia

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

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Emily Dickinson

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Christina G. Rossetti

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

William Ellery Channing

Peace begins with a smile.

Mother Teresa

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

John Ray

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Julian Huxley

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Robert Bloch

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