Quotes & Sayings About Being Peer Pressured

I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something different but not better. For me, revision usually has more to do with making the language prettier, finding clearer images, using more active verbs. — Mary J. Miller

At any given point you can release your greatest self. Don't let anyone hold you back. Don't let anyone dilute you. Don't be peer pressured into being less than you are. People willing to dilute themselves for the sake of others is one of the great tragedies of our time. Stop letting others define and set the pace for your life. Get out there and be your best. Do your best. Live your best. Make every day count and you'll see how exponentially more exciting, thrilling, successful, happy and full your life will be. — Steve Maraboli

There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody. — Jake LaMotta

Huh. Veronica Mars, speechless. I'll have to write this one in my feelings journal. — Rob Thomas

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times. — Laura Hillenbrand

The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Valentine's Day money-saving tip: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. — David Letterman

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor. — Joseph Pilates

Best to take one day at a time in this uncertain life and be grateful for those days that treat you well. — C.S. Quinn

The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally. — Kirsten Dunst

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time. — Christian Slater

Remember that everything that is happening around you, good or bad, is in some way conspiring to help you. — Debasish Mridha

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. — J.G. Holland

Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity - but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our "biography," our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards ... It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are?
Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own? — Sogyal Rinpoche

Tyranny happens when a society turns against itself, with one part usurping the power of [the] whole and applying it to the exploitation of the rest. Corruption, or misdirection of public effort for private gain, is one common feature of tyranny.... Government through fear is another common feature of tyranny, since it it through fear that one part of society can induce the other to betray its own interests. — Matthew Stewart