Live and Die

“Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
--Maria Mitchell

Fortune's Accomplice

“A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.”
--Gordon Sumner

In a Tight Place

“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.”
--Harriet Beecher Stowe

Win Any Battle

“To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

A Rigged Gig

“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Small Tasks

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
--Helen Keller

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Impossible to Fail

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
--Charles F. Kettering

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No Possibility of Failure

“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.”
--Dorothea Brande