As
human beings, we seem to have a built-in need to impress other people. But, in
our mistaken desire to please others, we may do foolish things simply to impress
our friends. Before you fall victim to the unwanted pressures of your peers,
consider the following ideas.
About Peer Pressure
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be
like other people."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be
appreciated."
William James
"I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my
son."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say
"yes" merely because we are driven into a corner and must say
something."
Frank Crane
Follow Your Conscience, Not Your Peers
"Conscience is the voice of the soul."
Jean-Jacques Rosseau
"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved."
Margaret Fuller
"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be
right."
Winston Churchill
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
Josh Billings
Be Yourself; Do the Right Thing
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening
or strange that self may prove to be."
May Sarton
"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm
against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."
Robert Frost
"A man must consider what rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a
conformist."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And Finally
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Marcus Aurelius
This page was written and
compiled by Criswell Freeman, Psy.D.
