Peer Approval Quotes

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

Making my family, friends, and close peers proud of me is the most important thing.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

All I care about is what the boys at the fork of the creek think of me.

Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.

When you're respected by your peers, that's amazing.

Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.

My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragement and approval of our fellow men.

I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? You think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And it's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you;re not funny then you're not...anything

Kids have moved from, "I have a feeling, I want to make a call," to "I'd like to have a feeling, I need to send a text." In other words, there's a continual need for validation. They're constituting a thought or feeling by sending it out for votes. That's really not where you want to be emotionally.

What I actually do put much more weight on, in all honesty, is not being critically acclaimed - it's being respected by my OGs. When I talk to E-40 on the phone, every time I talk to him, I'm like, you know, if he tells me I'm doing good, I'm doing good.

Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Grammy nominations are certainly pleasant, but you can forget about them and lead a perfectly happy life - provided you have the approval of the musicians you work with.

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.