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

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

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

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

I am a very simple guy. Of course, popularity matters a lot, but for me, my health and family come first.

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.'

Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

I have got popularity. BJP workers have given me unmatched love. They admire me so much that I feel humbled.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

I feel that what is probably the greatest enemy of longevity is popularity, and most people die of popularity.

My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

I can understand my popularity with the Indian diaspora, but I do get surprised when non-Indians recognise my music.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.

A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

I think Putin's popularity was genuine when he first came to power. He was seen as a welcome relief from the Yeltsin era.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Someone said I have had my popularity diminished by getting into the controversy of national education. Perhaps they are right.

Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

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.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

In spite of its relatively nascent rise in popularity, tea joints across the country are romanticized, quite like beer pubs in the West.

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

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.

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