#victory

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear. ↗

— James Longstreet

#broken #changed #command #corps #defeat

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#day #foreign #foreign policy #must #ourselves

It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful. ↗

— Derek Luke

#everyone #lives #powerful #story #touch

In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable. ↗

— Edward Marsh

#unbearable #unbeatable #victory

I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor. ↗

— Bob Ney

#commissioners #county #deal #deserve #determine

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures. ↗

— John Phillips

#built #creatures #death #frustration #horses

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#being #despair #doing #else #excitement

A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#certain #contrary #dragged #handful #inured

I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war. ↗

— John Motson

#could #germany #i #i think #our

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#battles #consists #fighting #happiness #itself