When you are in any contest you should work as if there were — to the very last minute — a chance to lose it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee