Popular opinion Quotes

“That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.”

“Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren’t created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.”

“Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.”

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

“In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.”

“Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.”

“A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.”

“When people come to a conclusion that is contrary to popular opinion, there’s a calm resolution to them, for they are experiencing a short burst of pride. They have just captured an intellectual territory, and they will hold that territory.”

“As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.”