Cristina Yang, M.D. may be just another fictional character on Grey’s Anatomy but to me and many others she is everything we aspire to be in life. She’s beautiful, brilliant, funny and goes after what she wants regardless of what anyone thinks or says. I think we could all learn a thing or two from Dr. Yang, here are 13 quotes to live by.

1. “Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here, and don’t give a damn what anyone thinks. There are no teams here, no buddies. You’re on your own. Be on your own.”

2.“If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, then stop accepting crap and demand something more.”

3.“Oh, screw beautiful, I’m brilliant. You wanna appease me, compliment my brain!”

4.“Everybody has problems. Now get your ass out of bed and get to work.”

5.“There comes a point where it all becomes too much. When we get too tired to fight anymore. So we give up. That’s when real work begins: to find hope where there seems to be absolutely none at all.”

6.“Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we can step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.

7. "It's drinking time."

8.“Pretty is not enough. I wanna be great.”

9.“If there’s no food I’m going home.”

10.“Can everyone just accept the fact that there are some things that I like to keep to myself, and I don’t discuss everything to death?”

11.“I’d say wish me luck but I don’t need it.”

12.“I can do hot in my sleep. I look hot in scrubs. I’m a hot person.”

13.“Don’t let what he wants eclipse what you need. He’s very dreamy, but he’s not the sun, you are.”