Quotes About Desire

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

see the things that you want as already yours

Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.

If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.

Intention is power. Intention is ownership. Intention is commitment. Intention is magic.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.