Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elton John

I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.

Neal Shusterman

It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

Morgan Brittany

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

Miles Franklin

Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.

Mila Kunis

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

Jonny Gomes

It's always good to get the bully back one day.

James Patterson

It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Emily Dickinson

To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

Olivia Colman

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Octavia Butler

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

Mason Cooley

Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

Marie de France

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

Theodore Roosevelt

Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

Joe Nichols

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

Joan Jett

If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

Emma Roberts

I've realized that you become a bully if you are just watching someone get bullied and you don't say anything. Speak up!

Shay Mitchell

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

Michelle Malkin

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Michelle Malkin

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

John Doolittle

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Lou Ferrigno

Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

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.

Lady Gaga

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Lady Gaga

Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.

Lady Gaga

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

John Lydon

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.

John Lennon

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

Josh Gad

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 Hutcherson

Bullies are just ignorant.

Ludovico Ariosto

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.