50 Inspirational Journal Quotes to Ignite Your Creativity and Self-Discovery

### Unlock the Power of Journaling with These Inspirational Quotes Journaling is more than just putting pen to paper; it's a journey of self-discovery, reflection, and growth. This curated collection of 50 inspirational journal quotes from renowned authors, thinkers, and creatives offers profound insights into the transformative power of writing. Whether you're a seasoned journaler or just starting out, these quotes will motivate you to embrace the practice with renewed passion. From Anaïs Nin's wisdom on creating oneself through journaling to Maya Angelou's reminder of the agony of untold stories, each quote serves as a beacon to inspire your daily writing habit. Dive into reflections on honesty, courage, mindfulness, and the celebration of life’s moments. Let these words encourage you to document your dreams, fears, and triumphs, making your journal a trusted companion on your personal journey. Start your journaling adventure today and discover how writing can illuminate your path, heal your soul, and unlock your fullest potential.

Wisdom from the Masters

"Journal writing gives us insights into who we are, who we were, and who we can become."

- Sandra Marinella

Self-awareness

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life"

- J. K. Rowling

Overcoming Obstacles

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

"The difference in winning and losing is most often…not quitting"

- Walt Disney

Persistence

"Focus on an ocean of positives, not a puddle of negatives"

- Kevin Ansbro

Positivity

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later"

- Og Mandino

Hard Work

"The mind is everything. What you think you become"

- Buddha

Belief

"Determine your priorities and focus on them."

- Eileen McDargh

Focus

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"

- Aesop

Generosity

"Whatever you are, be a good one"

- Abraham Lincoln

Integrity

"Wisdom begins in wonder"

- Socrates

Wisdom

"We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it"

- Barack Obama

Vision

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Perseverance

"When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade"

- Dale Carnegie

Optimism

"Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning"

- Robert Kiyosaki

Motivation

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness

"Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life"

- Alvin Toffler

Change

"Tough times never last, but tough people do"

- Robert Schuller

Resilience

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step"

- Lao Tzu

New Beginnings

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind"

- C.S. Lewis

Optimism

"Use this time of year for forgiveness and walk into the new year with a clear head and strong heart"

- Dr Jasmine Jagger

Forgiveness

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change"

- Stephen Hawking

Adaptation

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money"

- Abigail Van Buren

Family

"The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts, it gives you what you demand with your actions"

- Steve Maraboli

Drive

"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills"

- Chinese proverb

Change

"Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone"

- Billy Cox

Ambition

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often"

- Winston Churchill

Change

"Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong"

- Mandy Hale

Change

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

- Stephen King

Hard Work

"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."

- Khalil Gibran

Generosity

"If you want to change the world, go home and love your family"

- Mother Teresa

Love

"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change"

- Charles Darwin

Adaptation

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself"

- Chinese proverb

Learning

"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is"

- Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

Well-being

"Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson"

- Alan Cohen

Happiness

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things"

- Albert Einstein

Happiness

"Happiness is a direction, not a place"

- Sydney J. Harris

Happiness

"If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present"

- Roy Bennet

Happiness

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful"

- Joshua J. Marine

Overcoming Obstacles

"Life is too short to be unhappy"

- Roy T. Bennett

Happiness

"I’d far rather be happy than right any day"

- Douglas Adams

Happiness

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will."

- Epictetus

Happiness

"Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results"

- Dennis Waitley

Happiness

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"

- Aristotle

Happiness

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions"

- Dalai Lama

Happiness

"There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way"

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness

"I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success"

- Diego Val

Happiness

"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else"

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness

"Whoever is happy will make others happy"

- Anne Frank

Happiness

"Your journal will stand as a chronicle of your growth, your hopes, your fears, your dreams, your ambitions, your sorrows, your serendipities."

- Kathleen Adams

Personal Growth

"In the journal, I am at ease."

- Anaïs Nin

Inner Peace

"Write hard and clear about what hurts."

- Ernest Hemingway

Healing

"Journal what you love, what you hate, what’s in your head, what’s important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see."

- Kay WalkingStick

Self-awareness

"Your journal is like your best friend. You don’t have to pretend with it, you can be honest and write exactly how you feel"

- Bukola Ogunwale

Honesty

"Having the courage to reckon with our emotions and to rumble with our stories is the path to writing our brave new ending."

- Brené Brown

Courage

"Journaling gives you such an appreciation for the good things in your life while also helping you improve on the not-so-good things in your life."

- Steve Cicco

Gratitude

"The important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love."

- Pico Iyer

Awareness

"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."

- Mary Oliver

Awareness

"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

- Cecil Day-Lewis

Insight

"It’s by writing… by stepping back a bit from the real thing to look at it, that we are most present."

- Alison Bechdel

Presence

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

- William Wordsworth

Creativity

"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."

- Anne Frank

Healing

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by."

- Vita Sackville-West

Motivation

"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world — a writer is a professional observer."

- Susan Sontag

Awareness

"The private contemplation that journaling provides gives us a place to examine what life really means to us … It receives the mood we’re in and preserves it for us to look at and learn from … Every time we chronicle our thoughts and activities, we are verifying our existence."

- Luci Swindoll

Reflection

"A journal is your completely unaltered voice."

- Lucy Dacus

Self-awareness

"Journaling helps you to remember how strong you truly are within yourself."

- Asad Meah

Strength

"The true purpose of journaling is to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special."

- Danny Gregory

Gratitude

"A good journal entry— like a good song, or sketch, or photograph— ought to break up the habitual and lift away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart. A good journal entry ought to be a love letter to the world."

- Anthony Doerr

Creativity

"What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out."

- Michael Hyatt

Reflection

"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us."

- Virginia Woolf

Reflection

"Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself."

- Pat Conroy

Self-awareness

"Keeping a journal will absolutely change your life in ways you’ve never imagined."

- Oprah Winfrey

Transformation

"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise."

- Sylvia Plath

Courage

"I don’t journal to ‘be productive.’ I don’t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found."

- Tim Ferriss

Self-care

"I don’t know what I think until I write it down."

- Joan Didion

Self-awareness

"Our pasts define us, yet memory is untrustworthy. By keeping a journal, I can capture those memories when they’re still reasonably fresh. Journaling helps me keep a narrative of my life. It keeps me honest with myself."

- John Dumas

Honesty

"Journaling leads people to life changes, leaps of faith, new insights, and meaningful decisions."

- Lynda Monk

Transformation

"Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change."

- Julia Cameron

Healing

"People who keep journals have life twice."

- Jessamyn West

Reflection

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."

- Louis L’Amour

Motivation

"I write in a journal daily. This extraordinary ritual has revolutionized my mindset, transformed my heartset, and generally influenced in my life exponentially."

- Robin S. Sharma

Transformation

"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself."

- Susan Sontag

Self-improvement

"Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits of consciously directing my thoughts and putting them in writing, but even more powerful are those I have gained from reviewing my journals."

- Hal Elrod

Personal Growth

"The deeper benefit of keeping a journal is that it offers a way to be consistently aware or mindful."

- Alexandra Johnson

Mindfulness

"That’s the thing with a diary, though. In order to record your life, you sort of need to live it, not at your desk, but beyond it, out in the world, where it’s so beautiful, and complex, and painful, that sometimes, you just need to sit down and write about it."

- David Sedaris

Reflection

"Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write."

- Dani Shapiro

Learning

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

Creativity

"Keeping a journal has taught me that each day holds something significant, something worth recording. My journal has reminded me again and again of the richness and abundance of my daily life, no matter how mundane or predictable some days may seem."

- Kristen Webb Wright

Gratitude

"Journaling is a way of capturing your life one day at a time. It is a wonderful way to be able to reflect on your past whether in good times or bad. It is really easy to forget how wonderful your life is in certain times, and a quick look back allows you to see the people, places visited, and get some perspective."

- George Bonelli

Reflection

"Journal writing, when it becomes a ritual for transformation, is not only life-changing but life-expanding."

- Jen Williamson

Transformation

"I realized that journal writing was and is a powerful tool for personal growth, problem solving, monitoring goals, and documenting my life over time."

- Bakari Chavanu

Personal Growth

"Is not the poet bound to write his own biography? Is there any other work for him but a good journal? We do not wish to know how his imaginary hero, but how he, the actual hero, lived from day to day."

- Henry David Thoreau

Reflection

"For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I’m a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still."

- Ruth Ozeki

Mindfulness

"Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence."

- Gao Xingjian

Healing

"Keeping a journal is the number-one best way to develop your written voice."

- Camille Perri

Learning

"Someone once said that chopping wood to make a fire warms you twice. Writing a journal is like experiencing everything twice … when you do it and when you reflect upon it as you write."

- Steven Wong

Reflection

"The journal is the ideal place of refuge for the inner self because it constitutes a counterworld: a world to balance the other."

- Joyce Carol Oates

Balance

"Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind."

- Natalie Goldberg

Mindfulness

"Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection."

- Christina Baldwin

Reflection

"Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself."

- Robin S. Sharma

Self-awareness

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."

- Anaïs Nin

Reflection

"Don’t bend, don’t water it down, don’t try to make it logical, don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion."

- Franz Kafka

Integrity

"Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

- Mary Oliver

Philosophy

"The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal."

- Robin Sharma

Self-awareness

"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather—in many cases—offers an alternative to it."

- Susan Sontag

Self-awareness

"Writing in a journal each day allows you to direct your focus to what you accomplished, what you’re grateful for and what you’re committed to doing better tomorrow. Thus, you more deeply enjoy your journey each day."

- Hal Elrod

Gratitude

"A breed apart from the diarists who write simply to collect the days or preserve impressions of foreign places are those who set out in their books to discover who they really are. These are generally very serious people, more in the way of pilgrims, with inward destinations, than mere travelers. Some of them are after the sight of God; others are out to realize their full ‘potential,’ spiritual and otherwise; and some of them are carrying burdens of suffering they are unsure they can shoulder—they want to use their diaries to test, and add to, their strength."

- Thomas Mallon

Self-awareness

"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."

- Natalie Goldberg

Courage

"I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies."

- Anne Frank

Self-awareness

"Writing in a daily journal is important but the reason why I journal is because I can read my own writing after many months have passed by. I’m able to reflect on my life, my actions, my behaviors, my memories and also the behavior of others around me."

- Nando Prudhomme

Reflection

"If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you."

- Madeleine L’Engle

Self-awareness

"Writing in a journal gives me a place to report, interpret, argue, reflect, save, question, predict, unload, praise, compare, cry, laugh, draw, paint, and remember."

- Luci Swindoll

Self-awareness

"The very act of writing it down made her realize how easy it would be to forget, how important it would be from now on to put everything, everything, down on paper."

- Donna Tartt

Reflection

"Life is not always extraordinary in all its details, but it is the sum of those ordinary events that add up to extraordinary lives. The journal is no different."

- Journal Fodder

Reflection

"A journal can offer you a place to be someone, anyone, who you want to be."

- Brian Ledger

Self-improvement

"Writing in your journal gives you a chance to go back over your day and extract meaning from a hurried meeting with a friend or retrieve the significance of some fleeting event."

- Janette Rainwater

Reflection

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going"

- Jim Rohn

Motivation

"Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it"

- Natalie Goldberg

Motivation

"The journal is a place to let seeds of new directions freely scatter on the page."

- Ellen Bowers

New Beginnings

"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see, and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

- Joan Didion

Creativity

"Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell."

- Louisa May Alcott

Reflection

"I’ll only live once, and this is a record of the life I’m living."

- Jason Shanahan

Personal Growth

"Once you begin to reap the rewards of your writing, journaling stops being a burden and often becomes the activity you look forward to the most and obtain the greatest value from."

- Joyce Chapman

Motivation

"Writing is a sustaining thing."

- John McPhee

Motivation

"Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop."

- George Sand

Facing Fears

"You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page."

- Jodi Picoult

Perseverance

"Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are."

- Carolyn V. Hamilton

Gratitude

"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."

- Susan Sontag

Awareness

"All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still."

- Barbara Kingsolver

Mindfulness

"There is, of course, always personal satisfaction of writing down one’s own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Reflection

"My diary entries allow me to keep track of all the things I would like to change about my life."

- Stefan Sagmeister

Self-improvement

"The best time to begin keeping a journal is whenever you decide to."

- Hannah Hinchman

Motivation

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

- Maya Angelou

Personal Growth

"I have found so many sides of myself in the diaries of others. I would like it if I someday reflect future readers to themselves, provide them with examples, warnings, courage, and amusement. In these unedited glimpses of the self in others, of others in the self, is another of the covenants posterity makes with the day-to-day."

- Gail Goodwin

Connection to Earth

"Your Journal is like your best friend. You don’t have to pretend with it, you can be honest and write exactly how you feel."

- Bukola Ogunwale

Self-awareness

"Even the busiest people are never too busy to benefit from journaling for just five minutes a day."

- Sophia Godkin

Motivation

"Journaling to me has become important to me because it allows me to be present with a gratitude mindset daily."

- Kevin Anderson

Gratitude

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals"

- Zig Ziglar

Personal Growth

"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

- Susan Sontag

Awareness

"Journaling gives me the ability to forget minor details and focus more on the present."

- Kyle Weirauch

Mindfulness

"The truth is, journaling can be as simple as capturing a moment in time through a photo or arriving at a clear decision made possible by asking intentional questions."

- Marc Champagne

Reflection

"Smile, breathe and go slowly"

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it’s done right"

- Walt Disney

Persistence

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"

- Aristotle

Self-improvement

"The Way to get Started Is To Quit Talking And Begin Doing"

- Walt Disney

Motivation

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way"

- Martin Luther King Jr

Achievement

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer"

- Albert Camus

Resilience

"Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step"

- Muhammad Ali

Taking Risks

"Knowing what you need to do to improve your life takes wisdom. Pushing yourself to do it takes courage"

- Mel Robbins

Courage

"Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try"

- Jack Canfield

Taking Risks

"There is no right time, there is only right now"

- Mel Robbins

Motivation

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending"

- Maria Robinson

New Beginnings

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get"

- Dale Carnegie

Happiness

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out"

- Robert Collier

Persistence

"A year from now you may wish you had started today"

- Karen Lamb

Motivation

"Nothing will work unless you do"

- Maya Angelou

Hard Work

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress"

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity

"The harder I work, the luckier I get"

- Gary Player

Hard Work

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"

- Winston S. Churchill

Courage

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action"

- Tony Robbins

Determination

"Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it"

- Mark Zuckerberg

Hard Work

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm"

- Winston Churchill

Persistence

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"

- Steve Jobs

Ambition

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure"

- Paulo Coelho

Facing Fears

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall"

- Serena Williams

Resilience

"A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for"

- Albert Einstein

Courage

"From error to error one discovers the entire truth"

- Sigmund Freud

Learning from Mistakes

"Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined"

- Andrew Hendrixson

Determination

"Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with your hands shaking. Just start"

- Mel Robbins

Taking Risks

"Wherever you are, be totally there"

- Eckart Tolle

Presence

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory"

- Rita Mae Brown

Happiness

"Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to"

- Robert Brault

Happiness

"Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain, but you can’t make a rainbow without a little rain"

- Zion Lee

Happiness

"All happiness depends on courage and works"

- Honore de Balzac

Happiness

"Life Is What Happens To You While You’re Busy Making Other Plans"

- Allen Saunders

Philosophy

"Finding happiness is easy: stop being busy"

- Maxime Lagacé

Happiness

"Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear"

- Taylor Swift

Happiness

"Being happy doesn’t mean you’re perfect. It just means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections"

- K.B. Indiana

Happiness

"There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations"

- Jodi Picoult

Happiness

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe"

- Leymah Gbowee

Influence

"You don’t need a floodlight to bring light into the darkness – a single flame will do"

- Clare Josa

Inspiration

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do"

- Michael Porter

Focus

"Be like a tree. Let the dead leaves drop"

- Rumi

Personal Growth

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for"

- Maureen Dowd

Self-esteem

"Joy is not in things; it is in us"

- Richard Wagn

Joy

"Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go"

- Romeo Miller

Family

"A heart full of joy is better than a hand full of coins"

- Matshona Dhliwayo

Joy

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty"

- Maya Angelou

Transformation

"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down"

- Stephen Richards

Resilience

"Learn to be calm and you will always be happy"

- Paramahansa Yogananda

Inner Peace

"We tend to get what we expect"

- Norman Vincent Peale

Positivity

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor"

- Truman Capote

Learning from Mistakes

"Every morning is a fresh start. Wake up with a thankful heart"

- Kristen Butler

Gratitude

"Successful people don’t waste their time looking at what others are doing, they’re too busy focusing on their own goals"

- Joel Osteen

Focus

"Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble."

- Shah Rukh Khan

Failure

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra"

- Jimmy Johnson

Achievement

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow"

- Audrey Hepburn

Hope

"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right"

- Napoleon Hill

Taking Risks

"It isn’t what you do, but how you do it."

- John Wooden

Focus

"Persevere and get it done"

- George Allen Sr

Perseverance

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started"

- John Wooden

Motivation

"My aim in life is not to judge"

- Jeanne Moreau

Morality

"The scariest moment is always just before you start"

- Stephen King

Facing Fears

"Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it"

- Dr. Phil

Determination

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow"

- Helen Keller

Optimism

"An obstacle is often a stepping stone"

- William Prescott

Overcoming Obstacles

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect"

- Bruce Lee

Integrity

"Do What You Can With All You Have, Wherever You Are"

- Theodore Roosevelt

Motivation

"Mistakes are the stairs we climb to reach success"

- Tim Fargo

Learning from Mistakes

"You are your choices"

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Responsibility

"To become a queen, you have to give up playing the princess"

- E. Peterson

Personal Growth

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation"

- Herman Melville

Originality

"Choose people who lift you up"

- Michelle Obama

Relationships

"Done is better than perfect"

- Sheryl Sandberg

Perseverance

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one"

- Elbert Hubbard

Facing Fears

"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear"

- Richard Bach

Self-awareness

"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting"

- Buddha

Taking Risks

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep"

- Scott Adams

Creativity

"Don’t mistake activity with achievement"

- John Wooden

Productivity

"Logic gets you from A to B, imagination gets you anywhere"

- Albert Einstein

Imagination

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing"

- John Powell

Learning from Mistakes

"Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want."

- Dan Stanford

Learning from Mistakes

"You always pass failure on the way to success"

- Mickey Rooney

Persistence

"Anyone who doesn’t make mistakes isn’t working hard enough"

- Wes Roberts

Hard Work

"I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say."

- Flannery O’Connor

Self-awareness

"If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it."

- Beverly Cleary

Creativity

"What would you write if you weren’t afraid?"

- Mary Karr

Facing Fears

"I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live."

- Françoise Sagan

Self-awareness

"I owe a good deal to this journal. By unburdening my mind on paper I feel, as it were, in some degree to get rid of it; it seems made over to a friend that hears it patiently, keeps it faithfully, and by never forgetting anything, is always ready to compare the past & present and thus to cheer & edify the future."

- Anne Lister

Reflection

"Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else."

- C. S. Lewis

Inspiration

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes"

- Andrew Carnegie

Happiness

"You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream"

- C.S.Lewis

Aspirations

"Think big when you set your goals. Dare to think big and then set a series of smaller goals to get you there"

- Les Brown

Ambition

"The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I’d hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink."

- Rachel L. Schade

Self-awareness

"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior."

- Christina Baldwin

Self-awareness

"We’re drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it."

- Keri Smith

Contribution

"Goals Should Never Be Easy, They Should Force You To Work, Even If They Are Uncomfortable At The Time"

- Michael Phelps

Hard Work

"Keep writing, and one day you might just become a great writer."

- Pablo Picasso

Motivation

"Keeping a journal of what’s going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what’s important and what’s not."

- Martina Navratilova

Self-improvement

"There is do and do not, there is no try"

- Yoda

Determination

"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."

- Anais Nin

Originality

"I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it."

- Chinua Achebe

Persistence

"Journaling is like whispering to one’s self and listening at the same time."

- Mina Murray

Mindfulness

"This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution."

- Diet Eman

Healing

"I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking."

- David Sedaris

Determination

"Every flower blooms in its own time"

- Ken Petti

Personal Growth

"Owning less is great, wanting less is better"

- Joshua Becker

Simplicity

"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms"

- Zen Shin

Self-improvement

"The most important things in life aren’t things"

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

Awareness

"Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would"

- E.V.

Personal Growth

"Paper is to write things down that we need to remember."

- Albert Einstein

Productivity

"A write is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like."

- David Sedaris

Independence

"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."

- Terry Pratchett

Motivation

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Stay true to you and you will end up incredibly happy"

Self-confidence

"Let your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile"

Positivity

"I love who I’ve been, but I really love who I’m becoming"

Personal Growth

"Live everyday with an attitude of gratitude"

Gratitude

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up"

Persistence

"Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is to keep going when you really feel like giving up"

Bravery

"Every next level of your life will demand a different you"

Personal Growth

"Enjoy life. It’s a gift. Unwrap it with gratitude and love"

Gratitude

"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude"

Gratitude

"We can choose to be grateful, no matter what"

Gratitude

"The best is yet to come"

Hope

"Gratitude helps you see what is there instead of what isn’t"

Gratitude

"A thankful heart is a happy heart"

Gratitude

"I’m thankful for all of it. The highs. The lows. The blessings. The lessons. The setbacks. The comebacks."

Gratitude

"Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more"

Gratitude

"A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles"

Gratitude

"My life isn’t perfect, but I am thankful for everything I have"

Gratitude

"Give thanks, with a grateful heart"

Gratitude

"Be thankful for what you have, be fearless for what you want"

Gratitude

"There is always something to be thankful for"

Gratitude

"Start each day with a grateful heart"

Gratitude

"Enjoy the little things in life for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things"

Gratitude

"There’s no place like home"

Family

"Collect moments – not things"

Joy

"The best things in life are the people we love"

Love

"Gratitude is a choice. We can choose to be grateful"

Gratitude

"Choose to be grateful"

Gratitude

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for"

Motivation

"Grateful for small things, big things and everything in between"

Gratitude

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony"

Happiness

"The memories we make with our family is everything"

Family

"It is not happy people who are thankful, it is thankful people who are happy"

Gratitude

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts"

Happiness

"The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have"

Happiness

"Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot"

Gratitude

"Live simply, dream big, be grateful, give love"

Gratitude

"The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of everyday"

Happiness

"The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go"

Happiness

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"

Optimism

"Your best teacher is your last mistake"

Learning from Mistakes

"Be a voice. Not an echo"

Leadership

"Stars can’t shine without darkness"

Inspiration

"Life becomes beautiful when you learn to be as good to yourself as you are to others"

Self-care

"Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year"

Self-care

"Throw kindness around like confetti"

Generosity

"Be kind to unkind people, they need it the most"

Compassion

"It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice"

Morality

"Kindness is spreading sunshine into other people’s lives regardless of the weather"

Generosity

"If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never the goal"

Determination

"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you will miss them"

Motivation

"Happiness lies in perspective"

Happiness

"Happiness is a state of mind"

Happiness

"Exist to be happy, not to impress"

Happiness

"Happiness blooms from within"

Happiness

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet"

Happiness

"Find happiness in ordinary things"

Happiness

"When you’re happy you enjoy the music, when you’re sad you understand the lyrics"

Happiness

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection"

Personal Growth

"There is nothing so stable as change"

Change

"Be kind, be thoughtful, be genuine but most of all be thankful"

Gratitude

"Be thankful for the troubles you don’t have"

Gratitude

"A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise"

Gratitude

"Sometimes you just need to go off the grid and get your soul right"

Self-care

"A little progress each day adds up to big results"

Determination

"Slow and steady wins the race"

Persistence

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you"

Change

"I’m strong because I’ve been weak"

Strength

"Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity"

Positivity

"Don’t find fault, find a remedy."

Leadership

"Those who wish to sing always find a song"

Optimism

"Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself"

Self-awareness

"Never give up on the things that make you smile."

Motivation

"Stop doubting yourself, work hard, make it happen"

Motivation

"Inhale confidence, exhale doubt"

Self-confidence

"Grow through what you go through"

Growth

"It’s always seems impossible until its done"

Motivation

"Feel the fear and do it anyway"

Facing Fears

"Expect nothing and appreciate everything"

Gratitude

"Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most"

Self-improvement

"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive about what could go right"

Positivity

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star"

Ambition

"Fewer things. More peace"

Peace

"No rain. No flowers"

Adversity

"Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock"

Hope

"Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I"

Resilience

"You don’t need more space. You need less stuff"

Simplicity

"Busy is a choice stressed is a choice joy is a choice. Choose well"

Self-care

"Focus on the good"

Positivity

"Motivation will always beat mere talent"

Motivation

"Don’t be busy, be productive"

Productivity

"Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success"

Motivation

"Dreams don’t work unless you do"

Hard Work

"Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined"

Determination

"Do what is right, not what is easy"

Integrity

"Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it"

Motivation

"If you have no destination, you’ll never get there"

Goals

"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear"

Focus

"It won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth it"

Motivation

"Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds"

Mindfulness

"Own less. Do more"

Simplicity

"If you get tired, learn to rest. Not to quit"

Self-care

"Great things never came from comfort zones"

Taking Risks

"Going halfway never gets you anywhere. Go all the way or don’t go at all"

Determination

"Go the extra mile – it’s never crowded"

Hard Work

"A negative mind will never give you a positive life"

Positivity

"A few bad chapters do not mean your story is over"

Resilience

"Accept the challenge so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory"

Courage

"Goals are dreams with deadlines"

Goals

"One small positive thought can change your whole day."

Positivity

"Journaling [...] can be the go-to way you use your mind, maintain daily awareness, and take responsibility for your life."

Self-awareness

"A great attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great year"

Positivity

"You can totally do this"

Motivation

"Do it with passion or not at all"

Motivation

"Thankful for sweet friends like you"

Gratitude

"Don’t be afraid of change. You may end up losing something good, but you will probably end up gaining something better"

Change

"Grateful, thankful, blessed"

Gratitude

"Thankful and grateful"

Gratitude

"Sometimes the only paper will listen to you."

Self-awareness