Bullying Quotes
Taylor Swift
If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.
2370Carrie Arcos
Words stick, even when we don't want them to.
2309 Jennifer Wolf Kam
How easy would it be to let the words uncurl from my tongue and glide slowly into the space between us? Let them light up the room in bright-orange neon: Here's your answer! Here's what you need to know! It's an incredible thing to have that kind of power. To know that your words could change everything.
2155 Stefan Molyneux
We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
4614 Roger Kahn
Pique or policy. We would never know.
3535 Jonathan Yanez
Pain, sorrow, anger, these are all powerful emotions. Allowed to rule and left unchecked, they would destroy you. However, through training and willpower you can choose to harness those feelings and use them for something great.
3863 Dan Pearce
People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.
4719 Ellen DeGeneres
Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.
1426 Lynette Mather
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
2921 Karen Salmansohn
Talk to yourself the way you'd talk to someone you love. Shush your inner bully. Be your own bestie.
3921 Assunta Harris
You're a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness
3959 Abiola Abrams
I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.
4406 Neesha Meminger
But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.
3708 James Howe
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.
1036 Kathryn Magendie
All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time reading books, or watching television. It was safe. Nobody ever was hurt or teased or looked stupid while reading books or watching television.
3165 R.J. Palacio
I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.
4828 Michael Bassey Johnson
Forcing your love on someone who doesn't love you is an emotional rape, because your victim's heart was not aroused, you jumped into it without foreplay.
2304 Tiffany Haisten
I was taught at a tender age that Bullying had nothing to do with me; instead it had everything to do with the heartache of the person doing the bullying.
3212 Cynthia Hand
It's just high school, man. Those guys are just high school guys, and in ten years they're going to be working for people like me. I know that. I just have to make it through two more years.
3190 Gary Hopkins
When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it.
3072 W. Somerset Maugham
He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord.
1474 Ruth Ozeki
No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.
1733 Alice Miller
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.
4391 Rukhsar Din
When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.
2427 Jaha Knight
Your dreams and goals are bigger than small minded people or the fears that they harbor. Don’t let their ocean of fear trap you in the undertow.
1723 Cole Gibson
I had no idea that I was…destroying people.
1849 Karen Mueller Coombs
Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.
2175 Karen Mueller Coombs
My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.
1184 Karen Mueller Coombs
I’m proud of you, son,” he said. “I guess it has finally sunk in that it’s important to stand up for yourself in this world.”
Rocky shook his head. “It’s more important to stand up for someone who can’t stand up for herself,” he had answered.
Rocky Ryan speaking with his father.
2582 Karen Mueller Coombs
Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy.”
“That’s for sure,” agreed Rocky.
“But if we didn’t make difficult choices, right or wrong,” said Mr. Veraldi, “we wouldn’t learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.
2796 Shane Koyczan
We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.
2679 Rukhsar Din
I wish I knew what I looked like in other peoples eyes.
1978 Jodee Blanco
What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128
1782 Gena Showwalter
When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.
1602 Jodee Blanco
....stood there and watched and didn't do a thing to help me.
1299 Tamara Hill
A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that a lot of bullying stems from untreated or poorly treated mental and behavioral health problems.
3030 Zack W. Van
I'm most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I see them more like Steel. When heated, they can be bent either which way. But if it's not corrected by the time things cool down, they can be forever changed.
3862 Wendy Mass
When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.
4270 Michael J. Fox
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
1964 Yasmeen Khair
I had to stay weak, and stay silent, because if i say one logical thing I shall
be teased until the last breath.
3198 Patti Digh
People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you.
1253 Thomas Hughes
I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.
3332 Nathaniel Branden
A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
4025 Julie Chapus
When you know truly know just how much God loves you it won't matter when others don't and if you know truly know God accepts you it won't matter when others won't
3460 Nenia Campbell
I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.
1883 Julie Chapus
When you know truly know that God loves you it won't matter when others don't. And when you know truly know that God accepts you it won't matter when others won't.
2767 Tommy Tran
People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide.
4982 Susan Cain
I was the nicest person you'd ever want to know," Alex recalls, "but the world wasn't that way. The problem was that if you were just a nice person, you'd get crushed. I refused to live a life where people could do that stuff to me.
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