Popularity Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old popularity quotes, popularity sayings, and popularity proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution. Vance Havner
The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death. Jeffrey Archer
Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves. Mia Wasikowska
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism. Jonathan Mayhew
Popularity is not an indication of quality. Vanna Bonta
Do not exchange your dignity for popularity. Steve Maraboli
Many people seek popularity and want everyone to know their name. It's not important for everyone to know your name, it's important that some of the people you know don't forget your name Lea R . Caguinguin
Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Suzy Kassem
Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost. John Adams
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. Oscar Wilde
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. Horace Greeley
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. Margaret Fuller
Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands. H. L. Mencken
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. George Savile
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. Wilson Mizner
Popularity is given to you, and if you think that just because you're really popular you're a better person, it could be a real crash when you find the popularity goes down. Amy Tan
Popularity is not the single determining factor, as we all know, in how people vote. Rush Limbaugh
The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist. Terence Koh
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. Robert Bringhurst
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. William Penn
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly. Montaigne
Blessed are those whose fame does not outshine their truth. Rabindranath Tagore
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our life in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them. Spinoza
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise that last infirmity of noble mind, to scorn delights, and live laborious days. John Milton
Popularity is a crime when it is sought. It is only a virtue when it is unsought. Marquis of Halifax
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man who is contented with what he has done will never be famous for what he will do. Fred Estabrook
Making myself known is not what is uppermost in my mind. I am aiming at something better: to please myself. Gustave Flaubert
Popularity? It is glory's small change. Victor Hugo
Whatever is popular deserves attention. Sir James MacKintosh