A new year is a time for reflection and change. We set high goals for ourselves and vow to turn over a new leaf. We’ll promise to eat more spinach, run around the block everyday, and actually do the math homework. Sometimes however, it’s hard to brush off all your old habits and weird fetishes. People need a little push (or shove) to motivate them into achieving their resolutions. Here’s a list of somewhat inspirational and/or kind of funny quotes that will hopefully get you pumped up to get your butt off the couch. Cheers!

1. “Don’t be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.”
— H. Jackson Brown

2.  “Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.”
— Ellen Degeneres

3. “Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.”
— Jim Carrey

4. “Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”
— Hans Christian Andersen

5. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
— Vivian Greene

6. “Carpe Diem. Seize the day boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
—Dead Poet’s Society

7. “Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.”
— Ellen Degeneres

8. “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
— Steve Martin

9.“You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.”
— Emma Stone

10. “A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.”
— Chuck Norris

11.”The great thing about taking big chances when you’re younger is you have less to lose, and you don’t know as much. So you take big swings.”
— Amy Poehler

12. “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
— Robin Williams

13. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”
— Tina Fey

14.  “If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.”
— Michael Jackson

15.  “Don’t judge a book by its movie.”
— Unknown