craving for acknowledgment Quotes

We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.

She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne—bubbly and intoxicating—and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn’t want to seem like an easy mark. “If you must know, I’ve come to join a convent,” Evie said, testing him.

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.