Peer Pressure Quotes

Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Be careful of those who work so hard to turn you into a victim of the societal pressure they have fallen victims of.

~ Hafiz

Majority of those who would always push you to spend all your money on material things, tend to always be the same ones who wouldn't help you if you were to start experiencing some financial problems. Always remember that it is your money, and you have every right to spend it wisely.

~ Hafiz

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

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.

~ Unarine Ramaru

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

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

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

~ Ron Suskind

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who follow the popular majority, and those who possess good sense. In other words, you can either let the crowd steer you right over a cliff, or you can stop to peer beyond the brink and see how a fall will likely end in tragedy.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Basketball Rule #5When you stopplayingyour gameyou've alreadylost.

~ Kwame Alexander

If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden.

~ David Mcgee

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

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

~ Shahla Khan

She was starting to think that it might be fun to be in control of the universe.

~ Nicki Elson

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

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

It is common to come across a perfectionist at work. Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate, life is a bit tough when you have a perfectionist peer, life is toughestwhen you have a perfectionist supervisor!

~ Abhishek Ratna

Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy saying nobody tells him what to do. He does whatever he wants and he buys this product as a reflection of that independence. So basically, this maverick is urging everyone to express his individuality through conformity in brand-name selection?

~ Bill Watterson

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

~ V.s. Naipaul

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

~ Thomas Hughes

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

~ Thomas Hughes

We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies. Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position.

~ Shelby Foote

Charity shook her head, struggling to get back into the flow of Lady Margaret's crisply worded presentation. Brandy brought sleep, and a temporary escape from the ache of a broken heart. But in the morning came gritty eyes, a furry tongue, and a pounding headache that made a foolish girl wince and rub her temples whenever her coolly perfect boss was looking the other way.

~ Carol Storm

Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.

~ Jonathan Haidt

The human brain works by identifying patterns. It uses information from the past to understand what is happening in the present and to anticipate the future. This strategy works elegantly in most situations. But we inevitably see patterns where they don’t exist. In other words, we are slow to recognize exceptions. There is also the peer-pressure factor. All of us have been in situations that looked ominous, and they almost always turn out to be innocuous. If we behave otherwise, we risk social embarrassment by overreacting. So we err on the side of underreacting.

~ Amanda Ripley