"Chess is above all, a fight!"
- Emanuel Lasker
Courage
"Without error there can be no brilliancy"
- Emanuel Lasker
Growth
"The laws of Chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not"
- Emanuel Lasker
Responsibility
"When you see a good move, look for a better one."
- Emanuel Lasker
Focus
"The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind"
- Emanuel Lasker
Focus
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity