Quotes about Popularity
No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.
— Joyce Meyer
Pseudoscience is easier to contrive than science, because distracting confrontations with reality—where we cannot control the outcome of the comparison—are more readily avoided. The standards of argument, what passes for evidence, are much more relaxed. In part for these same reasons, it is much easier to present pseudoscience to the general public than science. But this isn't enough to explain its popularity.
— Carl Sagan
What sort of a transportation system d'you call this? The more popular it is the slower it goes!... 'You have to devise a system that goes faster the more popular it is, so it can cope! It's perfectly obvious!
— Terry Jones
Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.
— John Maxwell
A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
— Shane Claiborne
When it comes to dealing with God, most of us spend considerable time trying our own hands at either being or making gods. Jesus blocks the way. Jesus is not a god of our own making and he is certainly not a god designed to win popularity contests.
— Eugene Peterson
It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.
— Euripides
I'm not an icon. Not even in America.
— John Mayer
If cricket can be so glamorous and lucrative, I don't see why wrestling should lag behind.
— Sangram Singh
There's so many FM hits that I love. Bob Seger, there's two of his songs that I love. I would probably love more, but I don't sit around listening to Bob Seger records. It's the same thing with Tom Petty; he writes amazing hits, but it's not often that I sit around at home listening to a whole Tom Petty album.
— Kurt Vile
Unlike the political opportunist, the true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our sense of balance and perspective.
— Billy Graham