Peer pressure is bad only if you're surrounded by bad influences. — James Clear
The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else. — Lauren Greenfield
If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure. — Kevin Gates
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success. — Desmond Tutu
The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group. — Tony Robbins
The normal behavior of the tribe often overpowers the desired behavior of the individual. — James Clear
I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom. — Vinnie Paz
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not. — Ellen DeGeneres
Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters. — Billie Jean King
Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared. — Tony La Russa
Herd psychology, conformity, capitulation — Howard Marks
Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group to guide our behavior. — James Clear
Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket. — Lee Trevino
Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it. — Billie Jean King
All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you. — Sebastian Coe
Short Peer Pressure Quotes
Everyone is susceptible to groupthink. Thinking independently is difficult, and lonely. — Lex Fridman
Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on. — Chuck Noll
Knowing that someone else is watching you can be a powerful motivator. — James Clear
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association. — Jim Rohn
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. — Eric Hoffer
Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off. — Frank Shorter
The enemy of peace of mind is expectations drilled into you by society and other people. — Naval Ravikant
You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. — Lee Trevino
Peer Pressure Image Quotes
The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.' — Grace Hopper
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you too.
Social Pressure Quotes
In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air. — Charlotte Mason
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage. — Alain LeRoy Locke
Modern society will shame you for existing. — Naval Ravikant
Courage is grace under pressure.
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. — Mary Pipher
Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him. — Emile Durkheim
Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial. — Catharine MacKinnon
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people. — Queen Rania of Jordan
The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen. — Gordon Ramsay
Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness. — Richard Simmons
When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them. — Rick Perry
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents. — Kevin Leman
At any given point you can release your greatest self. Don’t let anyone hold you back. Don’t let anyone dilute you. Don’t be peer pressured into being less than you are. People willing to dilute themselves for the sake of others is one of the great tragedies of our time. Stop letting others define and set the pace for your life. Get out there and be your best. Do your best. Live your best. Make every day count and you’ll see how exponentially more exciting, thrilling, successful, happy and full your life will be. — Steve Maraboli
There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure. — Dennis Wolfberg
The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that. — Ellen DeGeneres
People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
God has not called us to save America; He has called us to save Americans from the coming judgment of God by introducing them to faith in Jesus Christ. — Robert Jeffress
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. — Jean De La Bruyere
Hermits have no peer pressure. — Steven Wright
I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them. — Steve Vai
Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. — Chris Van Allsburg
At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure. — Wyclef Jean
Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions. — Robert S. Kaplan
We have plenty of pressures. We have the pressure to succeed to a certain level. You have peers that are doing so well, or some peers that are not doing so well and whether you like it or not you are constantly being compared to them. And of course you have the church pressures. — Jonathan McReynolds
Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal. — Nandita Das
There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them. — Po Bronson
We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world. — Neal A. Maxwell
Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. Peer pressure, acne, final exams, seven little tiny hairs on your upper lip. Luckily, the girls never noticed your infantile moustache, 'cos they were hyptonised by the fire engine sized zit on your forehead. — Christopher Titus
Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends. — Laurence Steinberg
Peer pressure is just that: pressure. — Jerry Spinelli
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. — Augustus William Hare
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way. — Hilary Duff
I also think that there's a little peer pressure. They probably think that a majority of people their age think the same things and they want to be considered - I don't know what the word is - in, hip, whatever, with that bunch. I think time will take care of some of this as it is revealed that [Donald] Trump is not what they think. — Rush Limbaugh
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel. — Walt Mueller
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences
on behavior, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley
The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again. — C. S. Lewis
Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents. — Madisen Beaty
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America. — Stendhal
There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat. — Jerry Nachman
I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am. — Lisa Leslie
Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough. — Kool Moe Dee
Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves. — Walt Mueller
Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power as an extrinsic force is a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way. — Charles D. Hayes
I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right. — Steve Martin
Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards. — Sandy Berger
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. — Moritz Gudemann
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