Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Tags: motivational, inspirational

Other Quotes by "Marilyn vos Savant"

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Tags: secrets, your, father, mother
Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
Tags: without, flying, candle, dinner
Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
Tags: poor, know, service, people
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Tags: new, walking, world, intelligence
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
Tags: teen, boredom, homework, think, music
View More by "Marilyn vos Savant"