Collecting inspiring and motivational quotes is one of my favorite pastimes. There’s just something about the perfect quote that can brighten up your day and make you feel motivated to achieve your goals. That’s why I decided to put together a compilation of some of my favorite notebook quotes. These quotes are bound to motivate and encourage you on your entrepreneurial journey.

The best notebook quotes

1. What power––what importance––lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share. — Penny Kittle, Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

2. These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget.–––from the notebooks of Celal Salik — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

3. If one could amputate part of one’s consciousness… — Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964–1980

4. My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It’s all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life. — Sarah Silverman

5. Unlike world I use my notebook from both side. — Singh Rajiv

6. Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens. — Walter Benjamin

7. Whenever something good happens write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life. — Peter McWilliams

8. ‘a living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.’ — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

9. A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook

10. Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn’t write to others any more; one writes to oneself. — Susan Sontag

11. ‘life says: ” Write down your experiences in a notebook, not on a blackboard. Don’t start with a clean slate, but with a new page, so you can look back.’ — Naveed Nawab Ali, Life Says

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

13. Unlike world I use my notebook from both side. — Singh Rajiv

14. And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. — J. K. Rowling

15. Whenever something good happens write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life. — Peter McWilliams

16. Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook — Nizar Qabbani

17. ‘life says: ” Write down your experiences in a notebook, not on a blackboard. Don’t start with a clean slate, but with a new page, so you can look back.’ — Naveed Nawab Ali, Life Says

18. To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks. — Thomas Mallon, Stolen Words

19. It’s like if Ryan Gosling showed up at your door dressed like Noah from The Notebook, bearing flowers and whiskey. You’d be stupid not to take that bike for a ride. — Staci Hart

20. I’ve tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral–bound notebook. — Rachel Hollis

21. If one could amputate part of one’s consciousness… — Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964–1980

22. I’ve tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral–bound notebook. — Rachel Hollis

23. To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks. — Thomas Mallon, Stolen Words

24. 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

25. Once you become self–conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook

26. I trust all joy — Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

27. Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. — Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

28. Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.–notebook, 1898 — mark twain

29. Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats. — Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks

30. I’ve tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral–bound notebook. — Rachel Hollis

31. And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. — J. K. Rowling

32. What power––what importance––lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share. — Penny Kittle, Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

33. Whenever something good happens write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life. — Peter McWilliams

34. I watch ‘The Notebook.’ I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies. — Romeo Miller

35. I watch ‘The Notebook.’ I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies. — Romeo Miller

36. Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short–term memory only retains information for three minutes — unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

37. That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds. — Paul Brunton, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

38. Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn’t write to others any more; one writes to oneself. — Susan Sontag

39. Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.–notebook, 1898 — mark twain

40. Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook….. — T.A. Richards

41. Une philosophie doit etre portative. — Paul Valéry, Cahiers = Notebooks

42. What power––what importance––lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share. — Penny Kittle, Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

43. Once you become self–conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook

44. For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people. — Rhonda Byrne

45. For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream. — Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh’s Starry Night Notebook

46. I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the h — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks

47. It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child–at least till you try to get him to do something. — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook

48. A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook

49. Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn’t write to others any more; one writes to oneself. — Susan Sontag

50. My writing is how I maintain. — Mark Salzman, True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall

Conclusion

In conclusion, notebooks are an essential tool in the modern world. We hope that the quotes above have inspired you to make the most of your notebook and make sure that it is always full of your ideas and thoughts. Whether you are writing a story, tracking your daily tasks or just jotting down your thoughts, notebooks are a great way to capture and express your creativity. So make sure to keep writing, keep thinking and remember that great ideas always start with a notebook.