Top 60 Bullying Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”

— Taylor Swift

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2. “Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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3. “Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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4. “Bullying is not okay. Period.”

— Jim C. Hines

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5. “People don’t realize how badly verbal harassment and cyber bullying affects you. I wish they had hit me in the face and gotten it over with, because what they said to me, sticks to me to this day. It affected me into the person that I am today.”

— Demi Lovato

6. “We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.”

— Barack Obama

7. “You can only offend me if you mean something to me.”

— Chris Rock

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

— Angelina Jolie

9. “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

10. “Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak.”

— Tim Field

11. “The malicious have a dark happiness.”

— Victor Hugo

12. “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”

— Will Smith

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13. “The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”

— Aesop

14. “All I can do is be me, whoever that is.”

— Bob Dylan

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15. “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.”

— Albert Ellis

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

— Frank Zappa

17. “We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common – which is – we all want to be happy.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

18. “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.”

— Mark Twain

19. “Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.”

— Danielle Steel

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Demi Lovato

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

— Mark Twain

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23. “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.”

— Johnny Cash

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24. “Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it’s hard, you feel like high schools never going to be over. Its four years of your life and you just have to remember the person picking on you has their own problems and their own issues. And you’re going to be ok.”

— Megan Fox

25. “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

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

— Omar N. Bradley

27. “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.”

— Chris Colfer

28. “Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

29. “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”

— Edmund Burke

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

— Stephen King

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

— Aldous Huxley

32. “To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.”

— Golda Meir

33. “It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is the most common reason for an unsatisfactory outcome for both employee and employer.”

— Tim Field

34. “Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

— Harvey Fierstein

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35. “People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”

— Dan Pearce

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

— William James

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37. “I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It’s the bully who’s insecure.”

— Shay Mitchell

38. “Bullying happens because weak people need to prop up their ego by beating up or humiliating others.”

— Bruce Dickinson

39. “Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.”

— Roger Scruton

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Bridgit Mendler

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

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Anna Maria Chavez

45. “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

46. “You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.”

— Stevie Wonder

47. “Freedom of Speech doesn’t justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.”

— Germany Kent

48. “In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?’”

— Lady Gaga

49. “Bullying is a national epidemic.”

— Macklemore

50. “Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly and secretively. The outcome, though, is the same.”

— Tim Field