When starting a new business, it’s important to keep your head held high and stay motivated. What better way to do that than by reading some motivational pencil quotes? This compilation of quotes will remind you that anything is possible if you put your mind to it and stay determined.

The best pencil quotes

1. Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners! — Roald Dahl

2. Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil. — Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth

3. I’ve been writing, but I haven’t been writing. In my mind I’ve been saying I want to write, but I haven’t actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing. — Serena Williams

4. Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners! — Roald Dahl

5. A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. — J. A. Meyer

6. There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark. — Ze Frank

7. When the last dime is gone, I’ll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again. — Preston Sturges

8. I’ll pluck out my eye with a pencil and eat it with a Spam and mustard sandwich IF ONLY you’ll sit me at lunch today, MacKenzie! — Rachel Renée Russell, Tales from a Not–So–Fabulous Life

9. A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. — J. A. Meyer

10. The pencil you leave it there, and it’s dead. It doesn’t do anything and it doesn’t move by itself. It doesn’t offer anything; it’s totally submissive to you. — Massimo Vignelli

11. I don’t use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I’m a horizontal writer. I think better when I’m lying down. — Truman Capote

12. I don’t use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I’m a horizontal writer. I think better when I’m lying down. — Truman Capote

13. Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand. — William Blake, William Blake

14. Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down. — Pete Seeger

15. When the last dime is gone, I’ll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again. — Preston Sturges

16. Life without a purpose is like an unsharpened pencil — it has no point.

17. I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous. — Stephen King

18. I am like a little pencil in God’s hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it. — Mother Teresa

19. Pencil. Paper. Forget the world. — Shaun Hick

20. When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go? — Steven Wright

21. Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd. — May Sarton, Selected Poems

22. There’s still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now. — Rod Stewart

23. Mistakes? That’s why they put erasers on pencils. — Rick Barnett

24. The pencil you leave it there, and it’s dead. It doesn’t do anything and it doesn’t move by itself. It doesn’t offer anything; it’s totally submissive to you. — Massimo Vignelli

25. People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. — Walt Disney

26. Its not the type of pencil but the artist’s skill that matters. — Srinivas Shenoy

27. I’ve never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do. — Taylor Swift

28. A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious. — Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty–four Variations on Voice

29. Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. — Nora Ephron

30. A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. — J. A. Meyer

31. For those special moments you never want to forget. When it comes to you, all I need is a pencilEthan — P.T. Michelle, Lucid

32. I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous. — Stephen King

33. You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas… when you actually do something physical. — Twyla Tharp

34. The mind writes with a pen, the heart, with a pencil. — Vladimir Nabokov

35. I have gotten everything from a one–page letter written in pencil to a 50–page computer generated masterpiece. — Ron Pearson

36. You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas… when you actually do something physical. — Twyla Tharp

37. Life without a purpose is like an unsharpened pencil — it has no point.

38. Its not the type of pencil but the artist’s skill that matters. — Srinivas Shenoy

39. Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down. — Pete Seeger

40. People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. — Walt Disney

41. It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil. — Matshona Dhliwayo

42. Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil. — William Shakespeare

43. Broken pencils still write beautiful songs. — Matshona Dhliwayo

44. Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners! — Roald Dahl

45. A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. — J. A. Meyer

46. A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. — Robert S. McNamara

47. The writer doesn’t need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. — William Faulkner

48. A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we’re penciling it in for a Friday morning. — Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra’s 24–Hour Bookstore

49. Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. ‘Go on, Professor Grace!’ he said, wide–eyed. ‘I wanna get an A on the test. — Rick Riordan

50. As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. — Terry Tempest Williams

Conclusion

We hope that these quotes about pencils have inspired you to use and appreciate them in your own life. Whether it’s for writing, sketching, and creating, pencils are important tools that can help us express our creativity. So, the next time you pick up a pencil, take a moment to reflect on the power of the pencil and its ability to help us create something beautiful.