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If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.
Kevin Gates
If you accede to the influence of others or settle for mediocrity, you're doomed to collapse.
2.
The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'
Grace Hopper
'The most detrimental expression in the language is: 'It's an established practice.'
4.
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.
Lauren Greenfield
5.
There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.
Dennis Wolfberg
7.
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.
Robert Jeffress
8.
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.
Chris Van Allsburg
9.
We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.
Neal A. Maxwell
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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.
Robert S. Kaplan
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Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences
on behavior, and they are classic excuses.
Andrew Lansley
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I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.
Sara Paxton
14.
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.
Augustus William Hare
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Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.
E. W. Howe
16.
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.
C. S. Lewis
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Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.
Walt Mueller
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Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Moritz Gudemann
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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
Aesop
21.
I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.
Steve Martin
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Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.
Paul Collier
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Just don't let anything get in the way of what you want to achieve. A lot of people get knocked back by friends, or family, or peer pressure. If you have a talent and want to do something with it, it's down to you. If it's what you really want then go after it and be very selfish... You have to remain committed, you have to stay focused and you have to be selfish.
George Sampson
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Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.
Barack Obama
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If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.
Daniel Handler