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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hermits have no peer pressure.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Solitude

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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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• Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

  Paul Collier

  Law, Peers, Norm

  Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.139, Oxford University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Children, Years, Play

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• Many kids only think about the present moment and don't realize that they are creating a digital footprint, which will follow you forever! You have to be careful about what you put on the Internet. It can even prevent you from getting a job! Other kids... especially girls... give in to peer pressure and take racy photos for boys because they think it will make the boy like them more. This NEVER works. Girls, let him like you with your clothes on.

  Tyra Banks

  Girl, Jobs, Kids

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• 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

  Pressure Groups, People, Peers

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• 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

  Football, Peers, Littles

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• 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

  War, Thinking, Iraq

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• 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

  School, Thinking, Decision

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• My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.

  Doug Flutie

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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