Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Pink

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

Phil McGraw

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

Rihanna

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.

Rihanna

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

Saadi

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Lady Starlight

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

Sheryl Sandberg

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.

Natalie Portman

You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.

Natalie Portman

Even [Donald Trump] presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.

Taylor Swift

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

Sy Montgomery

It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.

Judy Greer

I think because bullying has really become such a problem right now, I think it's maybe going to be more impactful right now, just because of where that is in society and how much more we're hearing about it.

Macklemore

Bullying is a national epidemic.

Graydon Carter

It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

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.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make them bigger. But I try not to use too much from my real life, because you'll be stuck with that all day.

Kenny Wormald

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

Katy Perry

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.

Randy Harrison

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

Rick Santorum

The left, unfortunately, participates in bullying more than the right does. They say they're tolerant, and they're anything but tolerant of people who disagree with them and support traditional values.

Roy Keane

Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

Rosalind Wiseman

When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college. But its true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.

Rosalind Wiseman

Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

Rosalind Wiseman

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

Ugo Betti

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

Robert Winston

Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

Rebecca West

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.