Popularity Quotes

370 quotes by 326 authors

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games. — Woody Hayes
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise… — Frank Herbert
I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like,… — Jonah Hill
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. — David Hume
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best… — Tab Hunter
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. — Aldous Huxley
If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because… — Kathy Ireland
Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my… — Jewel
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not… — Immanuel Kant
Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use… — Bil Keane
It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in… — Jon Landau
To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability,… — Jon Landau
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln
Avoid popularity if you would have peace. — Abraham Lincoln
My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but… — Wynton Marsalis
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. — John Stuart Mill
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. — Wilson Mizner
In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon. — Marilyn Monroe
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to… — Nathan Myhrvold
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention. — Nathan Myhrvold

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