Popularity Quotes
370 quotes by 326 authors
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I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.
— Woody Hayes
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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
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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
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
— David Hume
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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
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
— Aldous Huxley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
— John Stuart Mill
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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
— Wilson Mizner
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In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
— Marilyn Monroe
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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
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Who Wrote These Popularity Quotes
326 authors contributed a total of 370 Popularity Quotes, led by these top contributors: