A collection of inspirational smiling through pain quotes to lift your spirits and help you get through difficult times.
There is no denying that life is hard and messy. It will knock you down, you will go through storms and adversities that will test every ounce of strength in you.
And often, it may feel like things will never get better — but it does.
Brighter days are coming. You will get through the pain. You will overcome the storms. Just have faith. Keep moving forward and keep smiling.
We have gathered a collection of encouraging smiling through pain quotes to remind you of the importance of smiling, being hopeful, and looking at the bright side, especially when you’re going through tough times.
May these quotes below lift your spirits and give you the courage to keep going and keep smiling. You got this.
102 Encouraging Smiling through Pain Quotes
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.
— Yoko Ono
Peace begins with a smile.
— Mother Teresa
When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
— Steve Maraboli
More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.
— Roy T. Bennett
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
— Charlie Chaplin
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Smile, it’s free therapy.
— Douglas Horton
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.
— Maya Angelou
Keep on shining, keep on smiling, don’t lose faith, and don’t lose heart. When you’re crying, just keep trying to remind yourself, you’re a shining star, yes you are.
— LeAnn Rimes
A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.
— Roy T. Bennett
If I win, it’s nice. But even if I don’t win, I will keep smiling.
— Simona Halep
A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.
— Masashi Kishimoto
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
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
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 Rounseville Alger
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
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
Of all the medicines in the inner life, a smile is by far the best medecine.
— Sri Chinmoy
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 F. Buscaglia
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
— Goldie Hawn
Inspiring smiling through pain quotes
Smiling is definitely 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
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
— Muriel Spark
The more pain that’s referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals pain. So, you’ve got to have the pain, and then you have the laugh.
— Mimi Kennedy
If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
— Lucy Larcom
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
— Phyllis Diller
Smiling through confusion is courage. Smiling through tears is strength. Smiling through pain is power. Smiling through tragedy is greatness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain, or we never move on.
— Jeff Ross
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
— Nhat Hanh
Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired. Smile, even when you’re trying not to cry, and the tears are blurring your vision.
— Alysha Speer
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
— Christina Rossetti
When life gives you a hundred reasons to break down and cry, show life that you have a million reasons to smile and laugh. Stay strong.
— Unknown
Laughter is higher than all pain.
— Elbert Hubbard
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
— Thomas Paine
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
— E. E. Cummings
Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.
— Stephen King
Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears.
— Demi Lovato
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
— Mary Tyler
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Motivational smiling through pain quotes
…and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.
— Michael Cadnum
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes
— Jeremy Aldana
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
— John Ray
If you’ve got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.
— Melody Carstairs
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
— Marcus Aurelius
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
— Greta Garbo
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
The night taught me never to fear the dark times, by giving way to the dawn of a new day.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.
— Shannon L. Alder
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
— Victor Hugo
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.
— Kenneth Branagh
Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.
— Roy T. Bennett
It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.
— Steve Maraboli
These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
— Alphonse Karr
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
— Andy Rooney
Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.
— Manoj Arora
More smiling through pain quotes and sayings
I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.
— Diane Lane
Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.
— Anthony J. D’Angelo
Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind’s tearing tension.
— Sri Chinmoy
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
— Jim Beggs
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
— Denis Waitley
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
— Bryant H. McGill
Smiling makes people feel good and positive, conveying a sense of good-will, rapport and trust.
— Dr. T.P.Chia
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
— Anna Lee
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
Always keep your smile. That’s how I explain my long life.
— Jeanne Calment
If you see someone without a smile give them one of yours.
— Unknown
If you’re not using your smile, you’re like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.
— Les Giblin
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
— Bryant H. McGill
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
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
— Peace Pilgrim
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
— Lord Byron
Nothing shakes the smiling heart.
— Santosh Kalwar
Smile at the obstacle, for it is a bridge.
— Medusa
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
— Thomas Paine
Uplifting quotes about smiling through pain
Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you’ll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.
— Joel Osteen
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
— Herman Melville
Smile doesn’t mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you’re strong.
— Zayn Malik
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
— Dr. Seuss
Smile to the future and it will smile back to you
— Yoko Ono
The power of God is available to you today to help you do whatever you need to do and with a smile on your face!
— Joyce Meyer
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
— Zig Ziglar
A smile can brighten the darkest day.
— Unknown
Look back, and smile on perils past.
— Walter Scott
You don’t have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles You carry within you the power to make the world better.
— Sharon G. Larsen
A smile is a facelift that’s in everyone’s price range!
— Tom Wilson
Smile, even if it’s a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
— A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
— Connie Stevens
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
— William Shakespeare
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
— Walter Anderson
A strong woman is one who is able to smile this morning like she wasn’t crying last night.
— Unknown
Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.
— Joyce Meyer
Everywhere you go, take a smile with you.
— Sasha Azevedo
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
— W.C. Fields
A smile cures the wounding of a frown.
— William Shakespeare
Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place.
— Robert Alan Aurthur