Any quotes on not giving up?

Yesterday I was playing alright, today I'm losing severely, even to lower ranking players.

Encouragement?

"Don't give up"?

How about "You can do anything if you believe in yourself and rainbows"

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender ..."

Adrian: Einstein flunked out of school - twice. Yeah. Beethoven was deaf, Helen Keller was blind. I think Rocky's got a good chance.

I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come, when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of Fellowship, but it is not this day! An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you, stand, men of the West!

 *claps profusely*

I like that one :D

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do.

A winner is someone who gets up one more time than he is knocked down.

I always tell myself that either one of two things will happen when you try something that may be beyond your ability. Either you succeed or you learn a lesson that will help you succeed the next time. The only failure is in not trying.

Resigning a lost position saves time to play another game.

"Quit yer whining an' get back on yer feet, ya lousy bum!"

"General Custer, sir, you sure this is such a good idea?"

Time for the most motivational canine on the planet:

Listen to courage wolf and you CAN NOT FAIL

Fall seven times, stand up eight.  ~Japanese Proverb

He conquers who endures.  ~Persius

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.   ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.  ~Robert Schuller

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.             ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

http://www.quotegarden.com/perseverance.html

It's too bad the Crispin's Day speech does not really apply.

"What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"  ~Bluto

Einstein failing at school (in its most picant form-algebra) is a myth!

From ABC News:

Second, Einstein definitely did not fail at high school. Einstein was born on 14 March in Ulm, in Germany, in 1879. The next year, his family moved to Munich. At the age of 7, he started school in Munich. At the age of 9, he entered the Luitpold-Gymnasium. By the age of 12 he was studying calculus. Now this was very advanced, because the students would normally study calculus when they were 15 years old. He was very good at the sciences. But, because the 19th-century German education system was very harsh and regimented, he didn't really develop his non-mathematical skills (such as history, languages, music and geography). In fact, it was his mother, not his school, who encouraged him to study the violin - and he did quite well at that as well.

In 1895, he sat the entrance examinations to get into the prestigious Federal Polytechnic School (or Academy) in Zurich, Switzerland. He was 16, two years younger than his fellow applicants. He did outstandingly well in physics and mathematics, but failed the non-science subjects, doing especially badly in French - so he was not accepted. So in that same year, he continued his studies at the Canton school in Aargau (also called Aarau). He studied well, and this time, he passed the entry exams into the Federal Polytechnic School.

So the next year, he finally started studying at the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (even though he was now one year younger than most of his fellow students). Also in the year 1896, even though he was only 16 years old, he wrote a brilliant essay that led directly to his later work in relativity.

So he definitely did not fail his high school, and definitely was not a poor student.

So how did the myth that he failed high school start?

Easy. In 1896, which was Einstein's last year at the school in Aargau, the school's system of marking was reversed.

A grading of "6", which had previously been the lowest mark, was now the highest mark. And so, a grading of "1", which had been the highest mark, was now the lowest mark.

And so, anybody looking up Einstein's grades would see that he had scored lots of grades around "1" - which under the new marking scheme, meant a "fail".

"It's not over until it's over" --Leo Durocher--

It works for baseball. I'm not so sure about chess.