139 Inspiring Bullying Quotes to Build Resilience and Courage

"When you're nice, you're not bullying people. But when you're kind, you stand up against the bully."

- Daniel Lubetzky

"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

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

- Shay Mitchell

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

- Barack Obama

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

- Harvey Fierstein

"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

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"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

"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."

- Linda Sanchez

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Jeffrey Benjamin

"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words, he epitomized the history of the human race."

- Bertrand Russell

"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

"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

"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

"Cyberbullies can hide behind a mask of namelessness online and do not need direct physical admittance to their victims to do unimaginable harm."

- Anna Maria Chávez

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

- Anna Maria Chávez

"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

"The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person."

- Mary Elizabeth Williams

"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

"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

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

- Phil Lester

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

- Michael J. Fox

"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

"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

"Each time you send love in response to hate, you diffuse the hate."

- Wayne Dyer

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

- Steve Maraboli

"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

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

- Desmond Tutu

"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

"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

"When you have the choice between being right and being kind, just choose kind."

- Wayne Dyer

"I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are."

- Khloe Kardashian

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Ian Maclaren

"Cyberbullying is poised to turn into the biggest online concern, already affecting up to 35% of all children."

- Dr. Martyn Wild

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

- Phil Lester

"Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong."

- Suzy Kassem

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

- Jackie Robinson

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world … would do this, it would change the earth."

- William Faulkner

"It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph."

- Edmund Burke

"People who love themselves, don't hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer."

- Dan Pearce

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Wayne Gerard Trotman

"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."

- Amelia Earhart

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

- John Holmes

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

- Judy Garland

"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

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey."

- Sarah Fielding

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

- Harper Lee

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

- Mother Teresa

"The time is always right to do what's right."

- Martin Luther King III

"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

"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

"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

"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."

- Zoe Sugg

"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

"What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again."

- Anne Frank

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop

"You can always—always—give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!"

- Anne Frank

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

- Nelson Mandela

"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A. A. Milne

"Belonging is not fitting in … belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable, and imperfect."

- Brené Brown

"People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."

- Howard Zinn

"A friend: one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

- Walter Winchell

"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."

- Wayne Dyer

"Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."

- Diana, Princess of Wales

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

- St. Augustine

"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

"With ignorance comes fear – from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance."

- Kathleen Patel

"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."

- Arthur Helps

"It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad."

- Karen Salmansohn

"We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools."

- Martin Luther King III

"In a gentle way you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."

- Jane Goodall

"Whatever anyone else thinks about me is none of my business."

- Michael J. Fox

"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."

- Dale Carnegie

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Robert E. Lee

"A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else."

- Kelly Link

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

- Mother Teresa

"Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are."

- Harold S. Kushner

"Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love."

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."

- Albert Einstein

"I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs."

- Nelson Mandela

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Thomas Hughes

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

- Aristotle

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

- Aristotle

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"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

"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

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

- Fred Rogers

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

- J. K. Rowling

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

- David Viscott

"Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human."

- Harold Kushner

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

- Golda Meir

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

- William James

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself."

- Brian Tracy

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

- William Shakespeare

"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."

- Mark Twain

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

- Victor Hugo

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

- Peter Drucker

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something."

- Wilson Mizner

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

- Carl Jung

"You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you."

- Courtney Summers

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got."

- Art Buchwald

"We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy!"

- Anne Frank

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

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

- Mark Twain

"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."

- Jacques Delille

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

- Cinderella

"No one heals himself by wounding another."