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Chess Player Inspirational Quotes (2575)

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Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.
Benjamin Franklin
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Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
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Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.
Garry Kasparov
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It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.
Viswanathan Anand
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Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.
Benjamin Franklin
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Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
Boris Becker
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When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.
Benjamin Franklin
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All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
Vladimir Nabokov
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He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Benjamin Franklin
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The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.
Alexander Alekhine
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Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are caused by either impatience, complacency, exhaustion, or all of the above.
Pal Benko
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All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.
Stanley Kubrick
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The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.
Peter Thiel
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Blunders rarely travel alone.
Anatoly Karpov
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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
Benjamin Franklin
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I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
Viswanathan Anand
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I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!
Arthur Bisguier
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He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.
Lev Polugaevsky
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The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
Benjamin Franklin
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Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.
Benjamin Franklin
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Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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