Top 200 Joy Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I was born to enjoy life. And so it is.”

— Louise Hay

152. “I love what I do, I love my job.”

— Pharrell Williams

153. “We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.”

— Shawn Achor

154. “Let’s build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.”

— Bob Ross

155. “After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.”

— Walt Disney

156. “When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.”

— Martin Yan

157. “You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.”

— Helen Keller

158. “Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.”

— Jonathan Larson

159. “Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.”

— W. Edwards Deming

160. “Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

161. “The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

— Eckhart Tolle

162. “It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.”

— Alan Cohen

163. “Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

— Eckhart Tolle

164. “You are meant to have an amazing life.”

— Rhonda Byrne

165. “The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”

— Brené Brown

166. “Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy.”

— Deepak Chopra

167. “And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah...”

— Louis Armstrong

168. “Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

169. “If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success.”

— Richard Branson

170. “I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone.”

— Louise Hay

171. “If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.”

— Rumi

172. “Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.”

— John Piper

173. “Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.”

— Ernest Holmes

174. “Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.”

— Brené Brown

175. “In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.”

— Carl Sagan

176. “Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.”

— Joel Osteen

177. “Happiness is an inside job.”

— William Arthur Ward

178. “When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.”

— Brené Brown

179. “I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.”

— Marianne Williamson

180. “I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

181. “Do not let fear of failure overwhelm the joy of success.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

182. “Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life.”

— Alan Cohen

183. “In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”

— Eckhart Tolle

184. “Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest joy for all humankind.”

— Nichiren

185. “Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

186. “The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.”

— Tony Robbins

187. “I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.”

— Dolly Parton

188. “It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

189. “No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.”

— Stephen Hawking

190. “God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.”

— John Piper

191. “Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

192. “I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.”

— Hermann Hesse

193. “A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

194. “Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.”

— Julie Isphording

195. “You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”

— Khalil Gibran

196. “If you are fully aligned with your soul it will be your pleasure, your joy to always move toward cooperation, toward sharing, toward reverence for life. You will not be torn.”

— Gary Zukav

197. “To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”

— Pearl S. Buck

198. “The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.”

— William Carey Jones

199. “I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.”

— Ram Dass

200. “Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.”

— Lecrae