craving for validation Quotes

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.

All human beings hunger for appreciation.

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

You want appreciation. Even though you like what's happening now doesn't mean that you still don't want appreciation or greater stimulation. It just means you're not using something in your now as your excuse to not let in all those things that you've been wanting. The perfect creative stance is satisfaction where I am, and eagerness for more.

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.