Popularity Quotes · Page 9

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People who strive for popularity tend to lack the strength inside to be themselves.

— Anonymous

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

— Jonathan Mayhew

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

— Karol Newlin

If you want to be popular all the time, you will misgovern

— Mr. Lee

There's no denying that my popularity helped me a lot.

— Amala Akkineni

Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.

— Mike Murdock

Popular and good and bad is not the same thing.

— Cyrus Broacha

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

— Ezra Taft Benson

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to…

— Kevin Costner

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

— Aristotle

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of…

— Spencer W. Kimball

I Don't Care About Popularity. I Live In Reality. Based On Originality. Forget Looks. I Respect Personality :)

— Anonymous

Gays feel about popularity the same way teenage girls do. Is it that we really want friends we can count on, or…

— Perry Brass

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

— Howard Cosell

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

— Ambrose Bierce

I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I…

— Bill Watterson

My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches,…

— Andre Agassi

I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don't think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after…

— Gene Weingarten

“Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of…

— Derek Thompson

Wanting to be popular does not make any difference to anyone else. What makes you special is making a difference in someone's…

— Romel Elien

First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues.…

— Bill Bixby

Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will…

— Francis Quarles

I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts…

— Moshe Safdie

There's no value to working hard on being really popular.

— Chris Brogan

Of course, no single entertainment device can enjoy eternal popularity.

— Satoru Iwata

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

— Namie Amuro

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

— Anonymous

“He was highly spoken of, everybody knew; but nobody knew who had spoken highly of him…”

— Margaret Oliphant

A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.

— Julien Green

Here's to the kids who care more about music, than popularity.

— Amanda

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

— Alexander Smith

Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.

— Laura Bush

I don't wear clothes that I am not comfortable with - clothes will not get you popularity.

— Tamannaah

In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

— Shirley Temple

The popularity of the party and Yingluck is getting more and more.

— Thaksin Shinawatra

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

— John Bytheway

“Popularity contests are not reliable measures of truth.”

— Mark Strassler

Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.

— Seth Godin