It isn’t always enough to set your goals and the strategy you are going to use to get there. Sometime we need a little inspiration or maybe a lot of inspiration! One of my favorite contributors to Inc. Magazine is Jeff Haden and last year he came up with a truly amazing compilation of 50 Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals, and I’m sure it will be just what you need to guide you along your 2019 journey to success. Pick out a few quotes that speak to you to focus on when the going gets rough.

Jeff writes “… sometimes all you need is a little push, a little nudge. A little burst of motivation and inspiration. Here are fifty of those nudges.

2. “Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.” —Travis Kalanick

3. “The question I ask myself almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'”—Mark Zuckerberg

4. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” —Chinese proverb

5. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” —Florence Nightingale

6. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart

7. “Do or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda

8. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” —Mark Twain

9. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” —Lao Tzu

10. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker

11. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” —John Lennon

12. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” —Woody Allen

13. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” —Farrah Gray

14. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot

15. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford

16. “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.”— Unknown

17. “Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” —Joshua Marine

18. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” —Booker T. Washington

19. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” —Jim Rohn

20.”Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” —Jimmy Spithill

21. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” —Steve Jobs

22. “The best revenge is massive success.” —Frank Sinatra

23. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had — every day I’m learning something new.” —Richard Branson

24. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou

25. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain

26. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

27. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” —Anais Nin

28. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” —Aristotle

29. “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” —Teddy Roosevelt

30. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair

31. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” —Japanese proverb

32. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”—Robert Frost

33. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen Covey

34. “It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.” —Paul Graham

35. “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do.” —Bob Dylan

36. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” —Albert Einstein

37. “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” —Chinese proverb

38. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” —Maya Angelou

39. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky

40. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela

41. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” —Confucius

42. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” —Tony Robbins

43. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”—Winston Churchill

44. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” —Beverly Sills

45. “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” —Booker T. Washington

46. “Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” —Vaibhav Shah

47. “Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

48. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand

49. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Steve Jobs

50. “Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” —Biz Stone