Chess Quote by Anonymous

“But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end…

— Fydor Dostoyevsky

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

— Aristotle

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

— Stanley Ellin

“In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to…

— Charles Buxton

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.…

— William Hazlitt

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face.…

— H. G. Wells

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations.

— Cavett Robert

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

— Charles E. Wilson

One cannot actualize his goals until he visualizes them clearly in the minds eye

— Mike Mentzer

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest…

— Albert Einstein

He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom…

— Emanuel Lasker