60 Quotes About Bullying to Comfort Your Heart

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Many people carry silent memories from school or work where harsh words stayed longer than they should. Small jokes, mean comments, and cold looks can follow someone for years. In those moments, reading quotes about bullying can give comfort and strength to stand tall again during very difficult times alone.

Some days feel heavy when rumors spread or messages hurt on social media. It can be hard to explain the pain to friends or family. At times like these, quotes about bullying remind us that others have faced similar struggles and found courage to move forward with hope and confidence.

In this article, we have gathered some of the best quotes about bullying from various sources, Thursday (26/22026). Let these messages guide you toward a more confident path during challenging moments in life today.

1. "Never be bullied into silence." - Harvey Fierstein

2. "Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke." - Benjamin Disraeli

3. "Not all forms of abuse leave bruises." - Danielle Steel

4. "I think bullying is for insecure and weak people." - Latto

5. "Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing." - Robert Carlyle

6. "I'm the poster child for cyber bullying. It's hurtful." - Mahira Khan

7. "There's so much bullying, and there's so much negativity on social media." - Jamie Chung

8. "Only the best are bullied." - Tim Field

9. “Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.” - Robert E. Lee

10. "Bullying is a national epidemic." - Macklemore

1. "Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning." - Tim Field

2. "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." - Octavia E. Butler

3. "People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think." - George Carlin

4. "The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding this individual throughout their life." - Tim Field

5. "Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey." - Anna Julia Cooper

6. "Bullying leaves permanent psychological scarring and young people become adept at learning what hurts, verbally and psychologically. Looks, personality and status are all easy targets, and particularly difficult to change." - Dawn Foster

7. "Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness." - Mike Honda

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

9. "Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of you who don't know, I was actually bullied as a young boy on one occasion." - Derek Hough

10. "Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up." - Pat Buchanan

1. "I understand what it can feel like when people are bullying you, and you can't just seem to catch a break, and people don't see who you are. And people completely paint their own picture. And you're supposed to zip it and just go along with whatever they say." - Hilaria Baldwin

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

3. "The people who are bullying you, they're insecure about who they are, and that's why they're bullying you. It never has to do with the person they're bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they're not alone." - Madelaine Petsch

4. "Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever." - Raini Rodriguez

5. "When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself." - Kaitlyn Dever

6. "Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one." - Eleanor Roosevelt

7. "They're not bullying you because of you,they're bullying you because of how they are" - Jessie J

8. "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - William James

9. “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.” - Abraham Lincoln

10. “If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.” - Taylor Swift

11. “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

12. “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

13. “No one heals himself by wounding another.” - St. Ambrose

14. "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

15. "The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities." - Julian Clary

1. "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim." ~-Tim Field

2. "Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein

3. "A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone." - Robert Kiyosaki

4. "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." - Randy Harrison

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

6. "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill

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

8. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

9. "One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered." - Michael J. Fox

10. "He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions." - Louisa May Alcott

11. "Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species." - Andrew Vachss

12. "Trolls want reactions. Don't become a bully because they're bullying you!" - Ananya Panday

13. "It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J. K. Rowling

14. “(To the haters) You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.” - Stefan Molyneux

15. “Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.” - Heather Brewer

1. "You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it." - Randi Weingarten

2. "It's very important to choose kindness and stop bullying." - Jacob Tremblay

3. "Stop Bullying. No one deserves to feel worthless." - Rebecca Black

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

5. "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

6. "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

7. "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." - Lady Gaga

8. “If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?” - Susane Colasanti

9. “We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.” - Alice Miller

10. “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