Quotes About Unpopular Opinions

#1. Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.

Greg Proops

#2. One might as well try to charge through a wall.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. Water was a state of mind. If you think it your friend when you swim in the river or wash away the dirt, why call it your enemy when it comes from the heavens? From the cup of the gods themselves.

Kate Furnivall

#4. The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

Irene Rosenfeld

#5. If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

Charles Hodge

#6. Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.

Bertrand Russell

#7. Without love life is impossible.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Expect abundance to receive abundance.

Debasish Mridha

#9. We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.

Suzanne Falter-Barns

#10. You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

Martial

#11. It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.

Richard Reti

#12. God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

Voltaire

#13. There are more than 4000 landing trace cases from around the world.

Steven M. Greer

#14. Why would a guy spend five years writing a book when he can buy one for ten bucks?

Richard Johnson

#15. I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?

James D. Watson

#16. Honesty suited Andrew because he was an instigator at heart and his opinions were often unpopular.

Nora Sakavic

#17. I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.

Andrew Mason

#18. In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business.

Robert Reich