Vita Sackville-West Quotes

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens.

Mad ambition trumpeteth to all

Ambition is the Subtlest Beast of the Intellectual and Moral Field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

I only aim at the powerful.

My intensity is my greatest strength. It's also my greatest weakness.

It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

We cannot show weakness in this world today

I still have the drive. I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

The weak are meat the strong do eat.

Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.