Peer Quotes

Peer Quote of the day

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

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

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.

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.

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

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.

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.

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.

We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.

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

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.

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

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

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

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

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.

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

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

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

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.

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

Blame it on Peer Pressure.

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a peer review for a journal than you could fly.

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.

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.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

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

You can't achieve the dream if you're pleasing the team

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

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.

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

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

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

What is next to ecstasy?Pain.What is next to pain?Nothingness.What is next to nothingness?Hell.

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.

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