100+ Inspirational Quotes on Bullying: Empowerment, Courage, and Kindness

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

- Shay Mitchell

"You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths."

- Taylor Swift

"I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself."

- Jackie Chan

"I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people - in spite of people's social standing or net worth or whatever it is - the sooner it will stop."

- Jason Priestley

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied."

- Barack Obama

"Kids who bully use their power — such as physical strength, availability of embarrassing information, or popularity — to control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people. … Bullying can affect everyone — those who are bullied, those who bully, and those who witness bullying. Bullying is linked to many negative outcomes, including impacts on mental health, substance use, and suicide."

- Stopbullying.gov

"Courage is the most important of virtues because, without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high."

- Michelle Obama

"If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished."

- Chris Crutcher

"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."

- Cat Cora

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

- Anna Maria Chávez

"Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles you, and it takes away your confidence, and nobody deserves that."

- Bill Goldberg

"Don't give in to bullying or others making fun of people. Stand up for yourself. Stand up for your friends. Be that one person who is genuinely good-hearted."

- Michelle McCool

"You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it."

- Randi Weingarten

"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."

- Katherine Jenkins

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

- Roger Ebert

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

- Desmond Tutu

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered."

- Michael J. Fox

"No, you don't know what it's like When nothing feels all right You don't know what it's like To be like me To be hurt To feel lost To be left out in the dark To be kicked when you're down To feel like you've been pushed around To be on the edge of breaking down And no one's there to save you No, you don't know what it's like Welcome to my life"

- Simple Plan

"You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves."

- Phil Lester

"We're not words, Henry, we're people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose."

- Shaun David Hutchinson

"Women endure entire lifetimes of these indignities—in the form of catcalls, groping, assault, oppression. These things injure us. They sap our strength. Some of the cuts are so small they’re barely visible. Others are huge and gaping, leaving scars that never heal. Either way, they accumulate. We carry them everywhere, to and from school and work, at home while raising our children, at our places of worship, anytime we try to advance."

- Michelle Obama

"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."

- Tommy Tran

"Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not."

- Wayne Gerard Trotman

"But sometimes, people kick you to the ground at recess because they think the shape of your eyes is funny. They lunge at you because they see a vulnerable body. Or a different skin color. Or a different name. Or a girl. They think that you won't hit back - that you'll just lower your eyes and hide. And sometimes, to protect yourself, to make it go away, you do. But sometimes, you find yourself standing in exactly the right position, wielding exactly the right weapon to hit back."

- Marie Lu

"Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does."

- Phil Lester

"Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it. Right is right, even if no one is doing it."

- St. Augustine

"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."

- Katherine Jenkins

"If you’re having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don’t know you. They don’t have the right to have an opinion on you."

- Maisie Williams

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J. K. Rowling

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Ian Maclaren

"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."

- Katy Perry

"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."

- Hunter King

"You should never make fun of something that a person can’t change about themselves."

- Phil Lester

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow'."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more."

- Taylor Swift

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"It is against the principles of human rights to bully another human being."

- Shenita Etwaroo

"We are only as strong as we are united, and as weak as we are divided."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic - the strong attacking the weak."

- Maria Konnikova

"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."

- Octavia E. Butler

"When people told me that I couldn't do something, I wanted to always prove them wrong. That comes a lot from people always bullying me because of my size and not thinking that I could do anything to impact the world or inspire other people."

- Ashley Nell Tipton

"Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Ian Maclaren

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

"I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones."

- Whitney Wolfe Herd

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are."

- Lady Gaga

"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."

- John F. Kennedy

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"You will never reach higher ground if you are always pushing others down."

- Jeffrey Benjamin

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Bullying is the systematic abuse of power and is defined as aggressive behavior or intentional harm-doing by peers that are carried out repeatedly and involve an imbalance of power. Being bullied is still often wrongly considered as a 'normal rite of passage'… Bullying by peers has been mostly ignored by health professionals but should be considered a significant risk factor and safeguarding issue."

- Dieter Wolke and Suzet Tanya Lereya

"It's very important to choose kindness and stop bullying."

- Jacob Tremblay

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

- Anna Maria Chavez

"People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten."

- Demi Lovato

"What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?"

- Lynette Mather

"See bullies for who they really are. Anger and aggression come from unexpressed hurt and pain… Think about what could be going on behind the scenes. Perhaps their parents divorced recently, they have a bully of their own, or they've been abused. Understanding this will help you rise above it."

- Jerry Weichman

"We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high."

- Michelle Obama

"A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else."

- Criss Jami

"Bullies are cruel and possibly irretrievable, but their anger and bullying behavior is often a displacement of their own lack of self-esteem and self-confidence. Mostly, they are lost souls who do not know how to feel comfortable in the world. Their experience has been of failure, rejection, and lack of ability to function well."

- Keith Sullivan, Mark Cleary, and Ginny Sullivan

"If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied."

- Dan Pearce

"Bullying happens at all ages and levels."

- Ralph Macchio

"He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world."

- Thomas Hughes

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."

- John Holmes

"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."

- Karen Mueller Coombs

"True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free."

- Lord Shaftesbury

"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."

- Desmond Tutu

"If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more."

- Taylor Swift

"Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally."

- Kamand Kojouri

"Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay."

- Josh Gad

"Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else."

- Fred Rogers

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

- J.K. Rowling

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."

- Ralph W. Sockman

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up"

- John Holmes

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

- Victor Hugo

"Everyone experiences bullying at some point - there are always older kids who think it's cool to pick on the younger kids."

- DanTDM

"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."

- Tom Felton

"Every time you post something online, you have a choice. You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world—or you can make it something that takes away. I tried to add something by starting Girl Online. And for a while, it really seemed to be working. So, next time you go to post a comment or an update or share a link, ask yourself: is this going to add to the happiness in the world? And if the answer is no, then please delete. There is enough sadness in the world already. You don’t need to add to it."

- Zoe Sugg

"I think bullying is for insecure and weak people."

- Latto

"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"

- J. K. Rowling

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Right is right even if no one is doing it."

- St. Augustine

"If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside."

- Phil Lester

"No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true."

- Cinderella

"Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors."

- Martin Kove

"When you talk about bullying I always go back to when I was at school, a bully was a big kid picking on a little kid."

- Troy Deeney

"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Robert E. Lee

"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."

- Taylor Swift

"Strong people stand up from themselves. But the strongest people stand up for others."

- Unknown