Bullying Quotations

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

The solution to putting an end to bullying is to stop it at the source but also to find out what is causing the person to behave the way that they do.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.

There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.

The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick.

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college. But its true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.

At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. Its not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

Be sure of yourself, don't let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.

It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

I don't know that there's more bullying or whether it's just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there's been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it's something that people are talking about.

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

I had a hard time with bullying. I ate lunch in the bathroom.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

One of the things I don't like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It's kind of bullying - it's very big, it's very flashy, it's got a lot of weight and it throws it around almost to the detriment of the rest of our culture.

We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

It's a form of bullying, in my opinion, to make sure that your kid gets the best grades, the best jobs and all that sort of stuff. I just want my child to be happy. I want him to do his best and trust God in the rest, but I'm not going to bully him.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

Everyone has the bully or the mean girl or the ex-boyfriend who tried to bring them down.

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.