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The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
— Sheila Jeffreys
When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.
— Dallin H. Oaks
Figure out the WHY you want it and turn it into a desire and then and obsession!
— Darren D.O. Connell
Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?
— A.E. Samaan
The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?
— Thomas Higgons
I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
— Karen Salmansohn
Though it doesn't feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
— Baruch Spinoza
Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.
— Stephen Richards
It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
— Idries Shah
Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.
— Wallace D. Wattles
If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.
— Neville Goddard
The leaders use their power to crush people's natural desire to think for themselves. It's foot binding for the brain.
— Haruki Murakami
But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.
— George W. Bush
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever you desire pursue it.
There is divine forces that attract the things to you. — Lailah Gifty Akita
There is divine forces that attract the things to you. — Lailah Gifty Akita
... Desire baffles knowledge and power.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
If you align your vibrations and frequencies with those things you desire, you will acquire them.
— Stephen Richards
Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo
from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at. — Alexander Smith
from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at. — Alexander Smith
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
— Ronald Reagan
When you get your power to be "good" from your desire to please man, you will ultimately fail because you do not have the power to be perfect,
— Hayley DiMarco
Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, the power to do it is strong.
— Wallace D. Wattles
Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.
— Stephen Richards
It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.
— Charles Yu
Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.
— Rhonda Britten
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
— Napoleon Hill
Get in touch with your inner most desire and aspirations, then utilise the power of your heart to create a life of bliss.
— Steven Redhead
If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.
— Radhanath Swami
Everything in the world of soul has a deep desire and longing for visible form; this is exactly where the power of the imagination lives.
— John O'Donohue
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
— Robert Collier
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
— Rumi
Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.
— Stephanie Garber
The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.
— Bernard Levin
A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.
— John Wanamaker
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.
— Megan Whalen Turner
I do not desire power, but rather to submit to the will of Elamm'.
— Benita J. Prins
Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The power of desire is a divine.
Desire to live by faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Desire to live by faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita
And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.
— Apsley Cherry-Garrard
To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.
— James A. Baldwin
Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.
— Frederick Lenz
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
— Wilferd Peterson
When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.
— Frederick Lenz
Always be aware that you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and tranquil life you desire.
— Wayne Dyer
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
— Ayn Rand
Wisdom warns against desire, but there is power in wanting, power that can fuel the will and keep lit that precious torch, hope.
— Eugene Uttley
Success comes to us when we have a burning desire to achieve and we focus our full power on achieving that.
— Sakshi Chetana
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
— Wallace D. Wattles
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
— Thomas Hobbes
Destroy desire completely for the present. For if you desire anything which is not in our power, you must be unfortunate
— Epictetus
Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled
— Michael Foley
There is a deep desire to change the power structure.
— Robert Reich
it is much the same, I daresay, wherever and whenever men desire power and the use of power on others.
— Elizabeth Moon
The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.
— Allen Ginsberg
Those who desire power want to
— Anne Rice
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
— Aristotle.
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.
— Ovid
The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
— Thomas Jefferson
Emotion fuels desire, desire is channeled into thought, and thought becomes power!
— Jesse Lynn Rucilez
The love of power is the demon of mankind.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.
— Rajneesh
Pentecost is a celebration of God ... a celebration of God's power ... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.
— Mark Hart
What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?
— Guy De Maupassant
If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.
— Richard J. Foster
Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
— Sophocles
Use the power of your conscious & subconscious mind to create a vibrational match for the abundance you desire and deserve.
— Jack Canfield
Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Understanding the eternal formula," Anna replied, "is the clue to win any game, and if you desire power you'll get it.
— J.M.K. Walkow
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
— Michelangelo
This is my greatest desire, to move heavenly onward.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.
— A.E. Samaan
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
— Bertrand Russell
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery
— Paramahansa Yogananda
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
— Bernie Siegel
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
— Charles William Eliot
Create your own heaven on earth by utilising the power of your heart to bring your true desire into your reality.
— Steven Redhead
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
— Thomas Hobbes