Quotes About Peer pressure

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

I think thinking for yourself is such a hard thing to do, because you just want to fit in in high school. So being comfortable with who you are is such a massive thing for a lot of people.

while Peeta was the very model of what a young man should be, I wasn't old enough to have any boyfriend at all.

Kate saw the Practically Perfect Ashley Lawson feed Jerome a french fry. "Nauseating," Annie said. "I'll probably have to have my stomach pumped.

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.'

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.

Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That's for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American.

Anyway, don't they have girls your age down there? Talon shrugged. Yeah...but none of them ever sprayed me with eye-poison.

For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

More awful than the fear of danger was the fear of looking foolish—of being excited when others were laid back—of being somehow manipulated

Anyway you looked at it, I had little choice but to bray along with the others. It was too late now. I had let my diffidence and dislike for exhibitionism get the better of me.

Boys are also constantly calling each other slobs and morons. The evaluations lose a lot of their power.

There's a lot of twisted folks and folks who don't stay true to who they are that can sometimes get led astray by work or by certain people pulling strings to make you be someone you don't want to be.

I've been bullied my whole life, whether it was about my peers or comments on Instagram or Twitter, whatever. And I never talked about my story, really. I feel like I've kind of accepted it because I realized that just comes with the territory.

With Instagram and Twitter, you're constantly looking at other people and comparing yourself to them, and it's just not beneficial. There is always going to be someone skinnier or prettier or with better skin, and that same girl you're looking at is comparing herself to someone else.

I just couldn't get into the high school scene at all. I was fat, ugly and weird. I just couldn't do the makeup and the hairdos.

People are willing to do really ugly things if lots of other people are also doing them.

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.

She told me once that she sometimes feels caught between two worlds at school -like she has to decide who she is instead of just being who she is.

The fact is that children get spoiled in bad company.

Nowadays, it's an offence even to be innocent in the eyes of the guilty; a person outrages the wicked simply by not joining in!

Money often moves around like a high school kid with no personality - it goes with the crowd.

In high school, I felt pressure to fit in with groups and with people who didn't actually want to be my friend. That's something I learned moving forward into adulthood: to keep the people around me people who love me for exactly who I am.

Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits.