There’s no question that keeping a journal is a great way to document your business journey. But often, it’s hard to know what to write about in your journal. To help you get started, we’ve put together a compilation of quotes from successful entrepreneurs that will inspire and motivate you.

The best journal quotes

1. A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I’ve never met a journalist I’d rather look like. — Robert Smith

2. The only interesting ideas are heresies — Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963

3. When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else. — Tori Amos

4. Every day I wrote in my journal: ‘How am I going to win today?’ So that when the guys are talking about water–boarding I’m telling them they haven’t even got the right towels. — Tina Fey

5. Extreme emotional pain has a profound effect on the body. I witnessed my already frail body become even more toxic and plundered. — Sharon E. Rainey, The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal

6. Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. — Russell Baker

7. I teach my students that you can’t be a journalist if you are going to be judgmental. If you have a judgmental nuance as you pose a question, people will close down. — Robert S. Boynton

8. I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. — Steven Pinker

9. Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement. — Steven Weinberg

10. But what is the difference between literature and journalism …journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. that is all. — Oscar Wilde

11. Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired. — Sharon E. Rainey, The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal

12. If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. — Norman Mailer

13. American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. — Tony Snow

14. You can crush a man with journalism. — William Randolph Hearst

15. It’s a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer. — Patricia Heaton

16. Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. — Walter Cronkite

17. Journalism is what we need to make democracy work. — Walter Cronkite

18. Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. — Rebecca West

19. One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck’s journals while he was writing ‘East of Eden, ‘ which was so cool. — Paul Dano

20. The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off. — The British Army Journal

21. We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege. — Upton Sinclair

22. It’s true that journalism in reality is not the journalism that we learnt in the university. It is far from it. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

23. The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics. — Michael Pollan

24. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

25. I’m not a journalist; I’m a poet. — Werner Herzog

26. Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. — Tom Stoppard

27. Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist. — Ron Fournier

28. Ah, the twin pillars of outrage journalism: slut shaming and victim blaming. — Rob Thomas

29. Forgiveness enables me to walk away from that pain, the loneliness and suffering. — Sharon E. Rainey, The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal

30. American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. — Tony Snow

31. I used to love writing in my journal. — Tyra Banks

32. I’ll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don’t like gray areas. — Nichole Robertson, The Paris Journal: Book One

33. His genius had only begun to flower. This was only journalism, after all, a cup of tea on the way to his eventual triumph as a novelist. — Tom Wolfe

34. The journal is written to everyone and thus to no one. — Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

35. In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications. — Tony Kushner

36. And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read. — Patricia Heaton

37. The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off. — The British Army Journal

38. Her bedroom–studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not ‘decorate’ it; she infused it. — Michael Chabon

39. The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. — Michael Pollan

40. We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics — this is how we stay objective.

41. Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. — Tom Stoppard

42. What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World. Doing the Important Stuff. — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste

43. A sprinkle of magic, a ton of fun, a heap of optimism, a lot of joy, a glimmer of hope–’tis the gift of the Happy Rosy Day gratitude journal. — Zakiyya Rosebelle

44. Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. — Russell Baker

45. I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers–they are journalists. — Robert Redford

46. Shade for a manAnd shelter for animals, Planted in your name, May you be the same for those around you, Every year the same. — Nancy J. Cavanaugh, This Journal Belongs to Ratchet

47. The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do. — Ted Koppel

48. I’ll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don’t like gray areas. — Nichole Robertson, The Paris Journal: Book One

49. I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That’s kind of intriguing, to do something in the political–commentary arena. — J. C. Watts

50. Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea. — Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims

Conclusion

Writing in a journal is an important way to express your thoughts and feelings. It also serves as a great way to reflect on your experiences and ideas. The following quotes capture the power of journaling and the impact it can have on your life. Whether you’re just starting out or are a seasoned journaler, these quotes can provide you with inspiration to keep going. So, take a few minutes and reflect on the power of journaling with these quotes. You may even find that writing down your thoughts helps you to gain clarity and understanding.