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Blame it on Peer Pressure.
Hermits have no peer pressure.
Never assume the obvious is true.
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.
Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.
We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.
Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
Caving into blather and peer pressure never bolstered anyone's argument.
The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'
I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.
My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.
Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.
I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.
Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.
One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.
Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.
Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer 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.
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.
The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.