Being defeated is often a ...

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
 Marilyn vos Savant

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
 Marilyn vos Savant
Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
 Marilyn vos Savant
The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.
 Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
 Marilyn vos Savant
What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from.
 Marilyn vos Savant