Popularity Quotes - Page 2

• Popularity? It's glory's small change.

  Victor Hugo

  Small Changes, Recognition, Glory

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• When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  People, Leader, Auctions

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.353

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• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  Walt Disney

  People, Laughing, Secret

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• To please the many is to displease the wise.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Please

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.14

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• But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

  Gerard Arpey

  Thinking, Flying, Bits

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

  Alexander Smith

  Heart, Generosity, World

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• In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Cute, Boyfriend, Girl

  "'Hellcats' Stars Ashley Tisdale And Aly Michalka Talk Boys And Cheerleading Inseventeen" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. September 08, 2010.

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• I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Slave, Certain

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.875

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• The popular breeze - Aura popularis

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Auras, Breeze

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• The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Minorities, Michael Angelo

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876). “Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ...”, p.174

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• Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

  Orson Welles

  Ducks, Election, Politician

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• A President cannot always be popular.

  Harry S. Truman

  President

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.243, New Word City

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• Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

  Wendell Phillips

  Lying, Opinion, Popular Opinion

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• The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

  Ronald Reagan

  Pay, Pounds, Principles

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• Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Needs, Comes And Goes, Knows

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• The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

  Barack Obama

  Motivational, Success, Leadership

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• Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

  Mark Twain

  Motto

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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• Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

  Yogi Berra

  Recognition, Bounds

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• Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

  Margaret Fuller

  Vanity, Beloved, Recognition

  Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1869). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Woman”, p.349

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• He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Friendship, Casts, Packs

  Oliver Goldsmith (1842). “The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: In One Volume. With the Portrait of the Author..”, p.217

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• Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
  I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
  Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
  Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

  Phife Dawg

  Music, Rap, Heart

  "Song: 'We Can Get Down'". 1993.

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• The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

  Nelson Mandela

  Worry, Vices, Ordinary

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• I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

  Common

  Appreciation, Player, Rapper

  Song: The 6th Sense, Album: Like Water For Chocolate, 2000

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• Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love, Hate, People

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.69, Race Point Publishing

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• Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivational, Home, Boxing

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