Bullying Quotes

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.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

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

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 person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, “Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.

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

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.

We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.

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

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil"; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

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

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

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

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

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

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.

You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire. Also, when you get made fun of-when people point out your weaknesses, it's an opportunity for you to rise above.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

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.

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.

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

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

The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone.

The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.

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

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

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

Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone.

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

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.