Peer Pressure Quotes - Page 2

• Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

  Moritz Gudemann

  Men, Rights, Surrender

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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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• 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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• 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

  Attitude, Kids, Mold

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Growing Up, School, Mean

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• 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

  Sports, Mom, Thinking

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• Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.

  Mary Blakely

  Mean, Kids, Yale

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom Motherhood Politics and Humble Pie”, Pocket

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• 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

  Strong, Long, Social Pressure

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• 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

  Thinking, Artist, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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

  Dennis Wolfberg

  Age, Peers, Pressure

  "Dick Enberg's Humorous Quotes For All Occasions". Book by Dick Enberg, October 1, 2000.

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• 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

  School, Kids, Parent

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• Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Reform, Toes

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

  Steve Martin

  Exercise, Looks, Courses

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• If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

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• The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Numbers, Judging

  1779 Mr Puff.The Critic, act 1, sc.2.

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• Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Cradle, Tombs, Customs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

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

  Charles Krauthammer

  Disappointment, Pressure, Peers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Motivational, Success, Stars

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