A smile costs nothing and changes everything — or so the saying goes. These quotes explore the power of a simple expression to lift moods, build connections, and make the world slightly less serious than it insists on being.
“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”
“When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.”
“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.”
“Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.”
“Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.”
“The coolest part about seeing a girl wear something comfortable is the smile that you can just feel coming through from inside her.”
“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”
“Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.”
“Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!”
“I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!”
“Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.”
“I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.”
“We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.”