PEER PRESSURE QUOTES
quotations about peer pressure
Peer pressure is not always negative. Sometimes, it inculcates new hobbies, habits, attitudes health conscience or a strong urge to succeed amongst people and where this happens, it is positive.
ADEYEMI RAPHAEL OLUWAMAYOWA
Peer Pressure: A Practical Guide To Handle It Successfully
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The Bright Messenger
If you follow the crowd, you might get lost in it.
ANONYMOUS
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
Understanding Today's Youth Culture
The stress of resisting unhealthy peer pressure can be buffered by good family relationships and a high self-esteem, and it is often those adolescents with neither who succumb to unhealthy pressure from their peers.
L. EUGENE ARNOLD
Childhood Stress
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
ANONYMOUS
often wrongly attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't often hear fellow grown-ups discussing times they've been peer pressured in adulthood, because we probably don't look at it in the same way. As kids, peer pressure was obvious and came in the form of a bully, or a so called "friend," teasing you until you buckled to their demands. Now peer pressure can take many forms, such as your friend guilt-tripping you into a girls' night out, feeling like you have to work late because everyone else is, or feeling pressured to start a family because most of your friends have. Peer pressure has evolved from a Neanderthal that enjoyed bashing you on the head with its club, to a reptilian dragon that is a master of manipulation.
PHOEBE WALLER
"6 Ways To Stand Up Against Peer Pressure & Do Your Own Thing", Bustle, March 10, 2016
No child is immune to peer pressure.
KATHI HUDSON
Raising Kids God's Way
When you say "YES" to others make sure you aren't saying "NO" to yourself.
ANONYMOUS
There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.
DENNIS WOLFBERG
Humorous Quotes for All Occasions
I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it.
SOL LUCKMAN
Beginner's Luke
Peer pressure is a mean, rotten, smelly monster with dirt under its fingernails, bugs in its teeth, and permanent morning breath. Well, at least, that's the picture of peer pressure that we've painted so far. That monster has hidden under our beds and given us all nightmares at one time or another. We've stressed out and freaked out, felt left out and pushed in. We've suffered butterflies in the stomach, weak knees, and sweaty palms. The situations that we confront are never as easy to deal with as we hope. But we do it, manned with our guts, our nerve, and few tricks up the sleeves of our jean jackets.
HILARY CHERNISS & SARA JANE SLUKE
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Peer Pressure for Teens
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.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
Talk to your children about peer pressure. Explain what a powerful force it can be, and ... tell them that you will never accept the excuse that "Everyone did it" ... that they will be held responsible for their actions.
TOM MCMAHON
Teen Tips
The recipe to ignoring peer pressure is feeling confident in who you are.
PHOEBE WALLER
"6 Ways To Stand Up Against Peer Pressure & Do Your Own Thing", Bustle, March 10, 2016
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
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.
BILLY GRAHAM
Billy Graham in Quotes
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
The Rapture of Maturity
Peer pressure has many redeeming qualities. It is the pressure of our peers, after all, that gives us the support to try things we otherwise wouldn't have.
BILL TREASURER
Right Risk
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.
R. BERGER
Harvard Education Letter