Top 35 Peer Pressure Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There’s a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

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

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.

I read a lot on self-esteem issues, and a mother has more impact on the self-esteem of her daughter than peer pressure or media or television.

I just feel like, with growing up and having peer pressure and what society wants you to be and what you think you should do, I feel like it’s really important to surround yourself around good, understanding, amazing people that actually love you for you.

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 just that: pressure.

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.

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

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

A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower. The result is refunded premiums for customers and profit for the company.

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

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.

My son, before he went to school, he’d eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got some peer pressure, and other kids would say, ‘Oh, you’re gonna eat that. That’s horrible. That’s disgusting.’

Hermits have no peer pressure.