Resisting Pressure Quotes

The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.

I don't have to do something I'm not comfortable with just to be on television.

I've never let people push me around in politics.

We have the obligation to defy public opinion in the public interest.

Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.

I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

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.

It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy.

When you stand your ground, and you are attacked by liberals and attacked by the press, that is going to earn you the respect of voters.

In the midst of conflict, I was pushed to step forward. There were groups who wanted to change our leadership immediately. Some tried to force me to take over, but I rejected them.

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don’t run away when things are tough. It means you don’t turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion... There’s a lot of people who won’t wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what’s honorable and decent.

I've been told to be skinny before - it's already happened, but it's up to you to either listen or say no. I'm not listening.

I’ve been asked to run for public office three times now, and each time I’ve managed to escape with my virtue intact. I said, no.

Some people want to tell me what's right for me, and I have to stick up for myself all of the time.

You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

You're going to get a lot of advice coming from many different quarters to do things that don't feel right to you, that don't reflect who you are and what your values are. So you have to be grounded in who you are and what you believe.

I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.

Some people have tried to change me and tell me what to do, but I haven't done it, and it's worked for me.

I'm not going to be bullied into not doing what I think is right.

There is a pressure, but my job essentially is not to listen to that pressure, not to buckle underneath that pressure, but instead to continue making music in the way that I have been making it.

If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.