Popularity Quotes - page 2

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. [...] One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life. (S. I. Hayakawa)
I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don't assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don't get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
Popularity is not leadership. View quote
Richard Marcinko
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern. View quote
Susan Orlean
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. View quote
David Eddings
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. View quote
Elihu Root
Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process. View quote
Robert Bringhurst
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. View quote
Bo Bennett
I didn't come to Washington to be a 'yes man' for any president, Democrat or Republican. I didn't come to Washington to get along and win any popularity contests. View quote
Jesse Helms
When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones. (Dee Dee Ramone)
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting. View quote
The Edge
I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity. View quote
Anthony Holden
Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances. View quote
Bruce Beresford
Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis. View quote
Jerry Lawler
Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. View quote
John George Nicolay
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism. View quote
Jonathan Mayhew
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. View quote
Julius Erving
Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too. View quote
Leo Howard
I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can share more kindness and a good quality of life through the popularity. Not for the popularity itself. View quote
Mario Teguh
My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity. (Namie Amuro)
The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity. View quote
Paul Michael Glaser
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 human being I possibly can be. View quote
Tab Hunter
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around. View quote
Terri Windling
As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can. View quote
Vince McMahon