Quotes About Being Unpopular

#1. The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.

Ben Bernanke

#2. The truth is a thing I get id of as soon as possible! Bad habit, by the way. Makes one very unpopular at the club... with the older members. They call it being conceited. Perhaps it is.

Oscar Wilde

#3. The thing that's been inhibiting long-form investigative reporting is fear - fear of being sued, of being unpopular, of being criticized by very powerful groups.

Eric Schlosser

#4. The racial laws which excluded the Jews from the German community seemed to a foreign observer to be a shocking throwback to primitive times, but since the Nazi racial theories exalted the Germans as the salt of the earth and the master race they were far from being unpopular. A

William L. Shirer

#5. I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain's future - and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping 'the least of these' even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular.

Gordon Brown

#6. To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.

Paul Stanley

#7. I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. Be Yourself and You'll Find Your own way to shine!

Pamela Cali Bankston

#9. It wont be possible to be famouse without courage.

Bozorgmehr

#10. The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it becomes harder for people with unpopular views to speak out without being in danger, be it from the state or just from the majority of the people who don't like them.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn't do for me when I was a girl. I am so ready to be that little girl's mother.

Ayelet Waldman

#12. The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#13. I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

Lady Gaga

#14. What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

Bryce Courtenay

#15. Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.

Jack Falahee

#16. If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#17. Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Marcus Aurelius

#18. Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

Graham Taylor

#19. You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

Woody Allen

#20. The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

Nathan Myhrvold

#21. to catch it called for harpooning it - which was Ned Land's business; to harpoon it called for sighting it - which was the crew's business; and to sight it called for encountering it - which was a chancy business.

Jules Verne

#22. Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.

Jenny Holzer

#23. Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

Roger Scruton

#24. There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

Rudy Giuliani

#25. Do we impress people with ourselves, or with the Lord? Do we draw people to our teaching, or to the Lord? This is genuinely vital. It determines the value of all our work and labor.

Watchman Nee

#26. Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.

Howard Fast