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“With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.”

War Sometimes States Reason Law Desire Judging Conflict Ambition Bounds Sovereign Grievance

Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

“We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!”

Knows World Humans This World Ambition Bounds

Book:The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

Source: The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

“But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.”

Knows Reader Ambition Bounds

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?”

Men Love Giving Important Ends Age Ambition Consequence Seasons Bounds Dear Passages Urgency Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity.”

Doe America Order Wealth Honor Ambition Bounds Noble Ancestor Exceed Medieval Stigma Love Of Money

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound to remain restless. If you want peace, then the first requirement is to drop all ambition. Unless you drop ambition you cannot be at ease, at peace, you cannot be relaxed.”

Ifs Men Want Mind Firsts Two Together Impossible Ambition Bounds Ease Ambitious Requirements Relaxed Restless Contradictory

Author:Rajneesh

“A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has no obligation to you. But if you live without intentions, without expectations, then miraculously you find that everything that you ever dreamed of is being fulfilled. The moon is reflected in the lake - the lake never asked it, the moon never intended it. Existence goes on spontaneously. Don't bring your desire, your ambition and your expectation; they are the disturbing points. They create a chaos in your mind.”

Ifs Men Feels Mind Desire Existence Goes On Moon Ambition Expectations Intention Chaos Bounds Obligation Frustration Lakes Frustrated Fulfilled Disturbing

Author:Rajneesh

“The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company's core values), to make the company great. Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.”

Matter Success Values Leadership Company Humility Genius Discipline Ambition Research Luck Bounds Core Preparation Remarkable Display Brutal Ceo Whatever It Takes Stoic Core Values

Author:James C. Collins