Quotes About Peer pressure

Before Elaine, Sherilyn was my closest girl friend. I still like Sherilyn, but after so many years of knowing each other, the little things started to pile up and bug me. She cares way too much about what Mairi and Hadley think. It's embarrassing. Even when we were little, she was rushing to impress them, rushing to anything them, and she just never measured

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.

But, like lots of people she knew, she mostly wanted it so she wouldn't have to want it anymore, so that people would get off her back about how she didn't have any.

They weren't sorry Catherine was dead at all. Certainly they hadn't particularly liked her when she was alive. Lisa had called her a stuck-up southern cow only last week, when Mr Scott had read out a chunk of her essay on Steinbeck. They were enjoying every minute of this. They weren't in the least sorry that Catherine would never take her place again in the front row for English. But she didn't say

Whenever we haven't got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around us.

I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started young and got to grade seven. When I turned 13, everyone started whipping out guitars, looking cool and joining rock bands, so I stopped playing.

People say that when you become famous you're growth is kind of stunted. That kind of makes sense because you are around people who are just agreeing with you and leading you into different places and you don't really make many choices for yourself.

I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

It's so easy as a teen to feel like everybody is having this normal experience - except you. You're on the outside.

Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.

As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a defiant teenager about it. Like, 'Oh, I'm not gonna like that because everybody likes it.'

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

Being a teenager is complicated.

Being a teenager is hard.

I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.

I don't really have time or interest in doing a lot of the crazy things that some of my teenage peers do, mostly because I have such a hectic life that I don't need to add to that chaos by creating my own teenage drama like a lot of teenagers do.

Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?

Kids can be annoying. Especially teenagers - oh my gosh. They can be cruel.

Young people are intimidating. But I really want them to like me. There is something about a group of teens that turns me into a performing monkey.

I hope you make those decisions because you feel they are the right thing to do, not because of peer pressure or because you're trying to fit in.

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.