Inspirational Chess Quotes & Sayings

Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others. The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. — David Steindl-Rast

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices! — J.K. Rowling

Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy. — Wahida Clark

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop. — C.S. Lewis

Even a pawn can take down a queen. — Chanda Hahn

Imagine God and Man set down together to play that game of chess that we call life. The one player is a master, the other a bungling amateur, so the outcome of the game cannot be in question. The amateur has free will, he does what he pleases, for it was he who chose to set up his will against that of the master in the first place; he throws the whole board into confusion time and again and by his foolishness delays the orderly ending of it all for countless generations, but every stupid move of his is dealt with by a masterly counterstroke, and slowly but inexorably the game sweeps on to the master's victory. But, mind you, the game could not move on at all without the full complement of pieces; Kings, Queens, Bishops, Knights, Pawns; the master does not lose sight of a single one of them. — Elizabeth Goudge

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. — Amar Bose

Just a taste. That was the Cambion policy, our credo. 'Just take enough to appease the spirit, then move on.' It sounded simple enough, but sometimes taking a little was worse than taking none at all. — Jaime Reed

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. — Steve Sabol

Kiss, a pat on the rump, and a deep inhalation of my scent, as if he and I were dogs. — Amy Tan

The problem with telling yourself you didn't want something, Sebastian discovered, was that soon you desired it even more. — Ashley March

WH Auden: "The first criterion of success in any human activity, the necessary preliminary, whether to scientific discovery or artistic vision, is intensity of attention or, less pompously, love. — ESPN Cricinfo

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive. — Stanley Kubrick

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits. — Harley King

He would go east and fight the emperor's wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones. It wasn't a matter of theory in a tiny office in the emperor's palace. It was the work of their lives and the end of many of them. — Megan Whalen Turner

Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing. — Auliq Ice

Every man needs a women, when his life in a trouble. just like a game of chess, queen protect the king — Anuj Kr. Thakur

If someone hates you, secretly they are admiring you. They deserve you love and not your hate. — Debasish Mridha

By the time the war was over, Bangladesh was a devastated country. The economy was shattered. Millions of people needed to be rehabilitated. I knew that I had to return home and participate in the work of nation building. I thought I owed it to myself. — Muhammad Yunus

In money matters no relationship counts; money hardens all hearts. — Matilde Serao

Having seen all of their fathers and husbands walk out the door[...], each woman understood most completely the nature of women's interconnectedness. Being reliant upon only women also had meant that the particulars of problem solving were addressed in ways known to women and using women's methods. — Tracey Lindberg

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. — Alexander Hamilton

I'll go be the best in the world somewhere else. — CM Punk