Top 200 Joy Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”

— Guillaume Apollinaire

52. “When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

53. “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

— Voltaire

54. “Live, and be happy, and make others so.”

— Mary Shelley

55. “Make your life spectacular, I know I did.”

— Robin Williams

56. “Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

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

— Yoko Ono

58. “If you are feeling good, it is because you are thinking good thoughts .”

— Rhonda Byrne

59. “I am going to make everything around me beautiful – that will be my life.”

— Elsie De Wolfe

60. “Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.”

— William Feather

61. “Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

62. “We learn best in moments of enjoyment.”

— Ralph C. Smedley

63. “I love my job, and I’m a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.”

— Lara Pulver

64. “Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.”

— Napoleon Hill

65. “If it ain’t fun don’t do it.”

— Jack Canfield

66. “The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.”

— Esther Hicks

67. “Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.”

— Ann Voskamp

68. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

69. “Laughter is an instant vacation.”

— Milton Berle

70. “Any fool can be unhappy when things are not okay. But it takes courage to be happy even when things are falling apart.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

71. “Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world.”

— Bob Ross

72. “Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don’t complain about what you don’t have.”

— Joyce Meyer

73. “Be happy in anticipation of what’s coming.”

— Esther Hicks

74. “Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

75. “Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.”

— Joyce Meyer

76. “If you do not want to be unhappy, no one else can make you unhappy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

77. “We all want happiness, and yoga is the way for that much needed happiness factor in life.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

78. “The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness.”

— Esther Hicks

79. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”

— John Keats

80. “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”

— Stephen Chbosky

81. “Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.”

— Robin S. Sharma

82. “When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others – think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

83. “Be positive. Stay happy and don’t let the negativity of the world get you down.”

— Germany Kent

84. “You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”

— Mary Oliver

85. “Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

86. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

— Epictetus

87. “If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.”

— Deepak Chopra

88. “You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.”

— Bob Ross

89. “I’ve realized that being happy is a choice.”

— Angelina Jolie

90. “Happiness inspires productivity.”

— Shawn Achor

91. “When mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, happiness is the natural result.”

— Deepak Chopra

92. “Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.”

— Richard Branson

93. “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

— Anne Frank

94. “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”

— Neil Gaiman

95. “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”

— Hafez

96. “Don’t take life too seriously and have fun. Don’t waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.”

— RuPaul

97. “Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”

— Deepak Chopra

98. “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Khalil Gibran

99. “One joy dispels a hundred cares.”

— Confucius

100. “There is no joy without gratitude.”

— Brené Brown