Quotes About Peer Pressure

#1. 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

#2. Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. "Conform or get lost." Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure - especially during the years of adolescence - is an almost irresistible force.

Billy Graham

#3. My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got some peer pressure, and other kids would say, 'Oh, you're gonna eat that. That's horrible. That's disgusting.'

Tom Colicchio

#4. Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits.

Christopher Moore

#5. My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Kanye West

#6. Hermits have no peer pressure.

Steven Wright

#7. 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

#8. Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others.

Steve Maraboli

#9. 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

#10. Machinations are divined. Response is by nature, nurture, experience and if sought peer pressure. You are the owner of free will. Choose.

Truth Devour

#11. If you live on a farm, there is definite peer pressure to grow something.

Janaki Lenin

#12. A recent study suggests that 75 per cent of the weight-loss response in obesity is predicted by insulin levels.29 Not willpower. Not caloric intake. Not peer support or peer pressure. Not exercise. Just insulin.

Jason Fung

#13. 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

#14. That was exactly what happened - the conformists showed less brain activity in the frontal, decision-making regions and more in the areas of the brain associated with perception. Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but can actually change your view of a problem.

Susan Cain

#15. I don't believe that young people today can live clean, pure lives without the help of God. The peer pressure is too great and the temptations they see in the movies and on television, and what they hear in their music is too much. Only Christ can give them the power to say no.

Billy Graham

#16. If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now.

Natalie De Clare

#17. So many of those who take Christ into the world, whether it be it's missionaries or artists, are tied by those who look over their shoulders. There is a lot of peer pressure within churches and Christian movements to dot all the i's and cross all the t's of a precise and perfect faith.

Steve Stockman

#18. Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

Andrew Lansley

#19. 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

#20. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Jerry Spinelli

#21. Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

Adam Levine

#22. I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.

Yann Martel

#23. Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

Thomas S. Monson

#24. The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

Ernest Istook

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

Sara Paxton

#26. Peer pressure is one thing, but when your dad's the pusher, it's something else entirely.

David Arnold

#27. Millions of young people are shifting from one side to the other. They are like unguided missiles filled with energy and ambition and yet somehow not "fitting in." Peer pressure leads them astray ... [and] in thousands of churches they are led astray theologically.

Billy Graham

#28. The three social influences that we have emphasized - information, peer pressure, and priming - can easily be enlisted by private and public nudgers. As we will see, both business and governments can use the power of social influence to promote many good (and bad) causes.

Richard H. Thaler

#29. Peer pressure must never be an influence on us. Nor should unjust rules or laws have any effect on us. What is right must always be done.

Abbot George Burke

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

Charles Krauthammer

#33. Free will" is one of the most precious gifts we have. To give it over to peer-pressure, psychics, or a dependency on drugs and alcohol is dangerous and an incredible waste.

Lorraine Warren

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Eugene Mirman

#37. Religion is peer pressure on steroids.

R. Elise Elrod

#38. There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.

Dennis Wolfberg

#39. If you choose to engage in one night stands, make sure you have a good reason and peer pressure is NOT one.

Shahla Khan

#40. The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness with children, but whatever it is called, it all betrays the same idolatrous heart.

Edward T. Welch

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

Kevin Gates

#42. Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.

Evita Ochel

#43. People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#44. Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.

Billy Graham

#45. 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

#46. If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".

Susan Cain

#47. Peer pressure is when you decide to lob a few warheads at this week's Nazi because CNN told you to.

Nick Cole

#48. Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.

Kool Moe Dee

#49. 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

#50. He had a hard time fitting in. A sense of isolation left over from all those years. Not quite peer pressure. More like peer rejection.

Jamie Ford

#51. Peer pressure is nothing compared
to ancestor pressure.

Pickles

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Are your beliefs anchored in a faith that can withstand emotionalism, the drug culture, social and peer pressure, and material temptations? The world is seething with demonic energy. Only supreme inner strength can resist its ceaseless hassling.

Billy Graham

#55. 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

#56. A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower. The result is refunded premiums for customers and profit for the company.

John Gerzema

#57. 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

#58. Researchers have found that peer pressure exerted within a clique has caused every one of its members to experiment with drugs, to engage in murderous gang fights, to steal autos, and to violate the seventh commandment.

Billy Graham

#59. 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

#60. The real enforcer, and this is true for the entire Lycurgan system, was peer pressure.

Scott Rusch

#61. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.

Joss Sheldon

#62. When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.

Matt Chandler

#63. I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it.

Sol Luckman

#64. My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And the cabinets rifle through.
They throw things out;
They put things in,
And erase the writing on the wall,
And by the time that they walk out,
It's not my mind at all.

Margo T. Rose

#65. Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.

Alexandra Robbins

#66. I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

Steve Martin

#67. Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

Alexandra Robbins

#68. It doesn't matter if I'm off the beat. It doesn't matter if I'm snapping to the rhythm. It doesn't matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You'll probably get kicked in the face.

Dan Pearce

#69. As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay.

Adi Alsaid

#70. That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn't know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think about it anymore.

Dana Michelle Burnett

#71. Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Moritz Gudemann

#72. To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

Richard J. Foster

#73. A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#74. My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams

John Taliaferro

#75. When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.

Alexandra Robbins

#76. Her mother, by showing her off all through childhood, had trained into her the instinct to defeat the expectations of others.

Stephen L. Carter

#77. The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the
moral standards of this world.

Billy Graham

#78. 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

#79. The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

Liam Williams

#80. Its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

Robert A. Caro

#81. Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#82. Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.

Henry Handel Richardson

#83. The apostle Paul said, "Be not conformed to this world." These words cut like a sharp sword across our way of life. They have the tone of the battle call in them. They separate the weak from the strong. But they are words of inspiration, and we need to hear them today.

Billy Graham

#84. Basketball Rule #5
When
you stop
playing
your game
you've already
lost.

Kwame Alexander

#85. Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.

Phil Lester

#86. Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you.

Paula Knoderer Hrbacek

#87. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Criss Jami

#88. 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

#89. Original Sin has great marketing potential.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#90. The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Every possible pressure is being brought to bear upon Christians
to make them conform to the standards of the present world ... be a committed follower of Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

#91. Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

Aesop

#92. Groups satisfy our brain's natural inclination to make sense of hordes of people we encounter and observe. This quality is so inherent that children intuitively understand the need to form groups without adults having to teach them.

Alexandra Robbins

#93. The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.

Dick Van Dyke

#94. Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

Thomas Hughes

#95. Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.

Shannon L. Alder

#96. Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#97. The culture were live in ripples through our daily lives, sending messages about what is considered "normal" and healthy by society.

Lee Harrington

#98. Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.

Alexandra Robbins

#99. 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

#100. They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.

Stephanie Dray