Peer Pressure Quotes

• I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.

  Eugene Mirman

  Giving, Peers, Pressure

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• Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

  Barack Obama

  Bullying, People, Peers

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• 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

  Graduation, Integrity, Giving

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• No one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.

  Richard G. Scott

  Strong, Mistake, Good Friend

  "Making the Right Choices". Speech at the General conferences of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1994.

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• Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, Submission To God, Priorities In Life

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• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

  R. J. Palacio

  Children, Love Yourself, Life Is Good

  "Fictional character: Via". "Wonder", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• 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

  Power, Men, Advice

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• If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

  Kevin Gates

  Peers, Kevin, Complacency

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• 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

  People, Giving, The End Of The Day

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• Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

  Aesop

  Yield

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.46, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Hermits have no peer pressure.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Solitude

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• Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences
  on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

  Andrew Lansley

  Powerful, Social Pressure, Peers

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• Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Peers, Pressure

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• 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

  Powerful, School, Quality

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• We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  World, Ifs

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• The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

  Grace Hopper

  Education, Spiritual, Phrases

  "Speech by SEC Staff: The Evolving Mutual Fund Landscape: Adapting to the Challenges of Change". Remarks by Paul F. Roye, www.sec.gov. December 06, 2001.

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• Never assume the obvious is true.

  William Safire

  Truth, Obviousness, Assuming

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• I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

  Sara Paxton

  Teenager, Thinking, Peers

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• Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

  William Wordsworth

  Reflection, Habit, Herds

  'Grant that by this' (1822)

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• 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

  Kids, Reality, Age

  Walt Mueller (1999). “Understanding Today's Youth Culture”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

  Kim Cattrall

  Believe, Expectations, Trying

  "Kim Cattrall's Aha! Moment". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. March 2003.

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• 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

  Kids, Peers, Feels

  Walt Mueller (1999). “Understanding Today's Youth Culture”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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