Top 1200 Peer Pressure Quotes & Sayings

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

When you're 20 and going to the draft, everybody is telling you what you should wear. I kind of succumbed to peer pressure on that one.

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

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.

Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

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

I'm guessing that ability to withstand peer pressure and adhere to one's values might translate to the kind of backbone necessary for a successful lifelong relationship.

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.

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.

I used to think I'd never get married or have kids. Peer pressure suggested I might be a lone wolf forever. I've always let life dictate its own terms. Marriage just happened.

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

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

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.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

Throughout school, I've faced ridicule and been complexed about my appearance. I almost turned into a nervous wreck. Peer pressure is bad. Children can be really cruel. Specially if you're not like everyone else.

Blame it on Peer Pressure.

There's peer pressure of not being respected of having a certain amount of money, but if you know who you are, then you see that and look past it.

For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

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

We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes "the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces" were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.

Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

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.

You don't need to bow down to peer pressure or be comparing yourself.

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.

Caving into blather and peer pressure never bolstered anyone's argument.

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

One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.

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

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

In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture.

The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.

Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.

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.

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

Men and women, boys and girls, are still bowing to the image of peer pressure out on their own Plain of Dura every week in every city of America.

For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.

Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.

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.

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

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.

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

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

Mostly in high school, when peer pressure took its big hold on me, that's when I started getting into my faith, and that helped me out so much.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.

You don't need to wear certain shoes or carry a kind of bag because of peer pressure.

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.

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

Hermits have no peer pressure.

In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant.

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

The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.