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Here are 100 of the best “love yourself” quotes. Self-love is probably one of the most important things you can accomplish in your life. So start with that, and then expand your love to others. You’ll discover quotes by Buddha, Lao Tzu, Maya Angelou, and more. Enjoy!

We must fall in love with ourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself. Mae West

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone. Maya Angelou

Just be, and enjoy being. Eckhart Tolle

The moment you know yourself you have known the most precious thing in existence. Osho

Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again. Osho

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Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move. Osho

You start to live the moment you stop competing with others. Maxime Lagacé

You can’t really love someone else unless you really love yourself first. Fred Rogers

The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful. Osho

Do your thing and don’t care if they like it. Tina Fey

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Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. Lao Tzu

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. Michel de Montaigne

All you really need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself. Eckhart Tolle

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you won’t do anything with it. M. Scott Peck

You’re certainly somebody that people can love. Fred Rogers

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha

Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself. Tara Stiles

If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. Osho

All people deserve your kindness, but none more so than you. Justin Kan

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. Maya Angelou

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves. Pema Chödrön

I have discovered, just as my teachers always told me, that we already have what we need. The wisdom, the strength, the confidence, the awakened heart and mind are always accessible, here, now, always. Pema Chödrön

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. Anne Lamott

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Haruki Murakami (1Q84)

You are morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. Jordan Peterson

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The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off. Robert Hand

You need time to think, time to dream, time to talk and time to do nothing at all. Brooke McAlary

Seek your own love, not the love of others. You acquire the love of others on the way. @orangebook_

Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world. Haemin Sunim

If you live to please others, everyone will love you except yourself. Paulo Coelho

If you want to be faithful to someone or something, start by being faithful to yourself. Paulo Coelho

Helping yourself, you help the world. You are in the world – you are the world. You are not different from the world, nor is the world different from you. Sri Ramana Maharshi

Love yourself first because this is the person you are going to spend the rest of your life with. Paulo Coelho (Source)

Love yourself. Love the world. There is no power stronger than love. Deepak Chopra

Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love. Eckhart Tolle

If I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do? Kamal Ravikant

Part 2. Self-Love Quotes That Are…

The Most Famous Love Yourself Quotes (Shakespeare, Hillary Clinton, Montaigne, etc.)

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To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. Oscar Wilde

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Carl Jung

Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neglect. William Shakespeare

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

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. Michel de Montaigne

Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams. Hillary Clinton

I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. Johnny Depp

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. Maya Angelou

Be gentle with yourself. You are doing the best you can. Paulo Coelho

I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. Augusten Burroughs

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Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person. Thich Nhat Hanh

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. John Lennon

You don’t need another person, place or thing to make you whole. Maya Angelou

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. Maxwell Maltz

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period. Jordan Peterson

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin

The moment you see how important it is to love yourself, you will stop making others suffer. Buddha

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. Charles Bukowski

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. Sally Field

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anaïs Nin

Related: The Gifts of Imperfection (Amazon book)

Short Self-Love And Love Yourself Quotes

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One-liners, short self-love quotes, sayings, thoughts, and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, and backgrounds.

Have mercy for yourself. Jack Kornfield

Love is unconditional. Shane Parrish

Know your chief fault. Baltasar Gracián

Love is the great educator. Sigmund Freud

Love yourself and dream bigger. Teresa Collins

Surround yourself with electric people. George Raveling

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself. Osho

Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity. Katrina Mayer

If you find it hard to fit in, stop trying. Adamas Shivananda (Source)

As you love yourself, life loves you back. Kamal Ravikant

Be kind to yourself. If you won’t, who will? Justin Kan

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect. Brené Brown

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. Brené Brown

You can listen to the crowd or you can just be yourself. Thibaut

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love. Osho

Love is without motive, without a purpose. Love is its own reward. Osho

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Inspirational Love Yourself Quotes

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Do you need inspiration? Don’t forget that loving yourself totally can be the hardest, but most important thing you’ll ever do.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face. Helen Keller

Be your own biggest fan. Love yourself and give yourself the things that you need. Mel Robbins

Self-love is the highest frequency that attracts to you everything you want. Idil Ahmed (Source)

It is absolutely necessary to flood your mind with positive thoughts about yourself. Iyanla Vanzant

Remind yourself of all the ways you can be more loving, more supportive, and more encouraging to yourself. Iyanla Vanzant

Send yourself a love letter and then take the time to read it to yourself. Express your heartfelt love to yourself. Iyanla Vanzant

The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself. Robert Greene

Choose yourself. Impress yourself. Be unashamedly in love with where you’re at and not just where you’re headed. The world needs more humans who practice self-love. Vex King (Source)

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others. Brené Brown

Be kinder to yourself and then let your kindness flood the world. Pema Chödrön

To be alone is one of the most beautiful experiences. You are no more bothered by others; you are no more forcing yourself to do something which is expected. Osho

Treat yourself as if you were someone that you are responsible for helping. Jordan Peterson

To be a happy person, one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared. Then, suddenly, you are at home. Osho

Not everyone is going to love You…Most people don’t even know how to love themselves. Jim Kwik (Source)

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball

You glow different when you love yourself, listen to your intuition and follow your heart. Pammy (Source)

When you love yourself, you automatically attract feelings of love for others around you. Rhonda Byrne

You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations. Suzy Kassem

Don’t be hard on yourself. Be kind. Yoko Ono

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. Diane Von Furstenberg

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. Steve Maraboli

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. Fred Rogers

What if you simply devoted this year to loving yourself more? Unknown

Related: 11 Easy Ways To Actually Love Yourself More (jordangrayconsulting.com)

Part 3. Conclusion

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This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply – in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I LOVE MYSELF. Kamal Ravikant (Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It)

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• A Seven-Step Prescription for Self-Love (psychologytoday.com)
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Do you love yourself? What’s your favorite self-love quote? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.

There’s nothing better than reading self love quotes to help inspire you to love yourself a bit harder today. Sometimes, we get so busy loving our families, friends, and even strangers that we forget to give ourselves the attention we need. In this article, you’ll find over 100 self love quotes to help you love yourself more. Feel free to check out our self love meditation below.

150 Self Love Quotes to Help You Love Yourself 

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Self Love Quotes

1. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
2. “Talk to yourself like someone you love.” – Brene Brown
3. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morely
4. “Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” – Maryam Hasnaa
5. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur
6. “Fashion is my way to express how much I love myself.” – Laura Brunereau
7. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
8. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski
9. “Seek to be whole, not perfect.” – Oprah
10. “True self-care is not bath salts and chocolate cake, it’s making the choice to build a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Brianna Wiest
11. “The right mental attitude will guide you towards feeling a sense of love that you deserve to experience.” – Anonymous

Self Love Quotes About Me

1. “When you say ‘yes’ to others make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” – Paulo Coelho
2. “You alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
3. “I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.” – Louis L’Amour
4. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
5. “Do things that make you feel good: mind, body, and soul.” – Robyn Conley Downs
6. “The world has slowed so you can rediscover yourself.” – Unknown
7. “I am who I am. Not who you think I am. Not who you want me to be. I am me.” – Brigitte Nicole
8. “I wish I could make everyone understand how important this statement is: go where you are wanted.” – S. McNutt
9. “Everyone one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” – Diana, Princess of Wales
10. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout loud ‘I am lucky to be what I am.’” – Dr. Seuss
11. “The real difficulty in self love is combating the inner critic who goes against our own wishes by challenging our own beliefs. You know you’re worthy of love, but the critic keeps reminding you of the past pain that you can’t let go of.” – Anonymous

Woman Self Love Quotes

1. “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Swati Sharma
2. “Make happiness your priority and be gentle with yourself in the process.” – Bronnie Ware
3. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz
4. “She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.”  – Nicole Lyons
5. “Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” – Anna Taylor 
6. “You are not your mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
7. “Accepting yourself only as long as you look a certain way isn’t self love, it’s self destruction.” – Laci Green
8. “Bring the sun over my heart, I want to bloom.” – Alexandra Vasiliu
9. “I’m doing it for me.” – Unknown
10. “Life tried to crush her, but only succeeded in creating a diamond.” – John Mark Green
11. “Unconditional self love is all the really matters in life. It’s where real life begins.” – Anonymous

Happiness Self Love Quotes

1. “The self-love needed for self-care [is] missing. Academicians use terms like self-esteem, self-worth, self-support, self-care, but rarely self-love. That is left to the spiritual community. People don’t realize that taking care of their own needs; eating, drinking, brushing their teeth, showering, wearing clean clothes, going to work are all acts of self-love.” – Angela C. Santomero
2. “Self-love is necessary for a functional and successful life” – Angela C. Santomero
3. “The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.” Viktor E. Frankl
4. “To love is to be vulnerable.” – Brene Brown
5. “Self-kindness is self-empathy. And even when I talk to myself like someone I love and it feels weird, it works.” – Brene Brown
6. “Not having to pretend simplifies our life. On the other hand, pretending day after day to be someone you are not, requires enormous effort.” – Piero Ferrucci
7. “I’m constantly amazed by how easily we love ourselves above all others, yet we put more stock in the opinions of others than in our own estimation of self. . . . How much credence we give to the opinions our peers have of us and how little to our very own!” – Marcus Aurelius
8. “Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love” – Buddha
9. “We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
10. “Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
11. “In the entire universe, you play such a huge role. The self esteem and love you have for yourself is the only gift you need to give. It isn’t a selfish act to love yourself hard. Only you can love yourself to the fullest because you understand why every aspect of your life has happened. A self love deficit isn’t what will bring you joy. The wrong mental attitude can be devastating in the world. If you have true self esteem and high self love you can share that love with the world around you. To love oneself is to love the world and a person learns that only when they show themselves the kindness they deserve.” – Anonymous
12. “Healthy self love means being gentle with the soul within you. To love oneself is the purest, bravest thing. Anybody in the entire world can experience self love. Just do the simple acts of love for yourself, and then your authentic self begins.” – Anonymous

Best Self Love Quotes

1. “You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – R.Z. 
2. “Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognize it.” – Rena Rose
3. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Deliah
4. “I love the person I’ve become because I fought to become her.” – Kaci Diane
5. “When your world moves too fast and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset. Reacquaint yourself with the earth beneath your feet. Thank the air that surrounds you with every breath you take. Find yourself in the appreciation of life.” – Christy Ann Martine
6. “Breathe darling, this is just a chapter. It’s not your whole story.” – S.C. Laurie
7. “If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
8. “It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.” – Warsan Shire
9. “Either they like you or they don’t. Never try to convince somebody of your worth. If a person doesn’t appreciate you, they don’t deserve you. Respect yourself and be with people who truly value ‘you.’” – Brigitte Nicole
10. “The people who trigger us to feel negative emotion are messengers. They are messengers for the unhealed parts of our being.” – Teal Swan
11. “The entire universe deserve your love. You also deserve to experience it back.” – Anonymous

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1. “To do: stop being so hard on myself.” – Unknown
2. “Know your worth. Don’t ask for it. State it once and never accept anything less.” – Unknown
3. “We are all born so beautiful the greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not.” – Unknown
4. “Shout out to all the people who haven’t felt okay recently, but are getting up every day and refusing to quit. Stay strong.” – Unknown
5. “Be kind to the person you are now.” – iambrilliyant
6. “Sometimes you will need people to support you and they won’t be available, not because they don’t care but because they’re the main character of their own life, not just the supporting character in yours.” – kesiawrites
7. “Don’t go back to less just because you’re too impatient to wait for better.” – Unknown
8. “Don’t let the bad days make you think you have a bad life.” – Unknown
9. “Give yourself the love you’re willing to give to others.” – Mahin Ismail
10. “There are no prerequisites to worthiness. You are born worthy.” – Unknown
11. “Nothing else falls into line when you’re cold to your own person. Everything else falls into line when you open your heart to yourself and stay true to your own person.” – Anonymous

Quotes About Self Love

1. “Be the love you never received.” – Rune Lazuli
2. “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
3. “I know what I bring to the table… so trust me when I say I’m not afraid to eat alone.” – Unknown
4. “Be loud about the things that are important to you.” – Karen Walrond
5. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott
6. “As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know this is ‘authenticity.’” – Charlie Chaplin
7. “Start healing your heart and you will look beautiful.” – Alexandra Vasiliu
8. “Love yourself more, you’ll never regret it.” – Ann Marie Molina
9. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
10. “Don’t compare your life to others, there’s no comparison between the sun and the moon, they both shine when it’s their time.” – Unknown

Quotes on Self Love

1. “Comparison is an act of violence against the self.” – Iyanla Vanzant
2. “Flowers need time to bloom. So do you.” – Unknown
3. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
4. “You ain’t gotta like me. I like me.” – Kanye West
5. “Other people’s opinion of you, whether it’s good or bad, should not be grounds in which you base your self worth. Your value is inherent within you. What matters the most is whether you know you are worthy.” – Ash Alves
6. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
8. “Self confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.” – Unknown
9. “If you are heartbroken, still leave your heart open, so pain can find an exit.” – Alexandra Vasiliu
10. “Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters, you will too.” – Jennae Cecilia
11. “All the filth in your mind that tells you that you aren’t worthy or good enough is the reason why you’re not experiencing self love in a healthy sense.” – Anonymous

Self Love Status

1. “I am unapologetically myself.” – Unknown
2. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton
3. “It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. It is only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the heart of others.” – Robin Sharma
4. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brene Brown
5. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay
6. “Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
7. “In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.” – Andrea Dykstra
8. “You have to choose yourself, even when others refuse to.” – R. H. Sin
9. “If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” – Roman Price
10. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” – Beyonce

Quotes for Self Love

1. “Compassion for yourself is fundamental, since if you don’t care how you feel and want to do something about it, it’s hard to make an effort to become happier and more resilient. Compassion is both soft and muscular. For example, studies show that when people feel compassion, motor planning areas in the brain begin preparing for action.” – Rick Hanson
2. “The Golden Rule is a two-way street: we should do unto ourselves as we do unto others.” – Rick Hanson
3. “You get the benefits of both giving and receiving compassion when you offer it to yourself.” – Rick Hanson
4. “Well-being comes from meeting our needs, not denying them.” – Rick Hanson
5. “You should love others in the same measure as you love yourself—as if your neighbor were your very self.” – Lawrence G. Lovasick
6. “Compassion for self and others may very well be the answer to healing our hurt, hate-filled world.” – Laura Jack
7. “Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.” – Pema Chodron
8. “If you wish to be loved, love.” – Seneca
9. “Unless we love and treat ourselves well, we are ill-equipped to do the same for others.” – Angela C. Santomero
10. “We can truly love one another once we love who we are.” –Angela C. Santomero
11. “To accept oneself completely is to know the truest kind of self-love.” – Anonymous
12. “When you love yourself, there’s no such thing as low self esteem. Establish true self esteem to experience the best kind of love with yourself.” – Anonymous

Bible Quotes on Self Love

1. “Let all that you do be done in love.” – 1 Corinthians 16:14
2. “I loved you at your darkest.” – Romans 5:8
3. “For though I fall, I will rise again.” – Micah 7:8
4. “Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit, you choose.” – Proverbs 18:21
5. “Though war break out against me, even then I will be confident.” – Psalm 27:3
6. “Perhaps this is the moment for which you have been created.” – Esther 4:14
7. “But as for you, be strong, and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.” – 2 Chronicles 15:7
8. “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” – Joshua 1:9
9. “For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it.” – Ephesians 5:29
10. “You are of more value than many sparrows.” – Luke 12:7

Self Love Quotes for Instagram

1. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
2. “You were born to be real, not to be perfect.” – Unknown
3. “Your soul will never be fully nourished by anyone’s love but your own.” – Dominee
4. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen
5. “The most powerful relationship you will ever have, is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
6. “The only person I need to compare myself to is my yesterday self.” – Allison Sue
7. “Self care is how you take your power back.” – Lalah Delia
8. “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
9. “A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.” – David Bailey
10. “Be vulnerable. Let yourself be deeply seen, love with your whole heart, practice gratitude and joy… be able to say ‘I am thankful to feel this vulnerable because it means I am alive,’ and believe ‘I am enough.’ You are worthy of love and belonging.” – Brene Brown
11. “Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” – Osho

Inspirational Quotes on Self Love

1. “You are what you believe yourself to be.” – Paulo Coelho
2. “As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drewn me down and away from myself.” – Charlie Chaplin
3. “Don’t allow yourself to think that toxic love is the best love you can ever have.” – Khalilah Velez
4. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou
5. “Love is about becoming the right person. Don’t look for the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, become the person you want to spend the rest of your life with.” – Neil Strauss
6. “The worst outcome in this world is not having self esteem. If you don’t love yourself, who will?” – Naval Ravikant
7. “Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.” – Wilfred Peterson
8. “Choose, everyday, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love.” – Alison Malee
9. “Learn to love yourself enough to be happy in your own company, not needing to use anyone as an escape.” – Samantha Camargo
10. “And I said to my body, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath. And replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.” – Nayyirah Waheed 

Short Self Love Quotes

1. “Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.” – Lalah Delia
2. “Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise L. Hay
3. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
4. “Until you get comfortable being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.” – Mandy Hales
5. “Replace the word ‘spend’ with ‘invest’ in your vocabulary and notice how it impacts your everyday decisions.” – Randy Thio
6. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy.” – Kim McMillen
7. “Life is too short to spend another day at war with yourself.” – Rita Ghatourey
8. “You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.” – Unknown
9. “Be silly. Be fun. Be different. Be crazy. Be you, because life is too short to be anything but happy.” – Unknown
10. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis

Kristin Neff Quotes on Self Love

1. “Loving ourselves points us to capacities of resilience, compassion, and understanding within that are simply part of being alive.”
2. “Self-compassion provides the same benefits as high self-esteem without its drawbacks.”
3. “Love, connection, and acceptance are your birthright. To claim them you need only look within yourself.”
4. “Happiness is found when we go with the flow of life, not when we rail against it, and self-compassion can help us navigate these turbulent rapids with a wise, accepting heart.”
5. “Western culture places great emphasis on being kind to our friends, family, and neighbors who are struggling. Not so when it comes to ourselves.”
6. “But self-kindness involves more than merely stopping self-judgment. It involves actively comforting ourselves, responding just as we would to a dear friend in need.”
7. “I am both the comforter and the one in need of comfort.”
8. “Who is the only person in your life who is available 24/7 to provide you with care and kindness? You.”
9. “To give ourselves compassion, we first have to recognize that we are suffering.”
10. “The beauty of self-compassion is that instead of replacing negative feelings with positive ones, new positive emotions are generated by embracing the negative ones.”

Being Myself Quotes

1. “Confidence isn’t thinking you are better than anyone else; it’s realizing that you have no reason to compare yourself to anyone else.” –Maryam Hasnaa
2. “Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, and magical person that you are.” – Unknown
3. “When I’m by myself, I can be myself, which is what I want to be. Not just a part of someone else.” – Jean Culligan
4. “You have to be odd to be number one.” – Dr. Seuss
5. “I will never apologize for being me, but I will apologize for the times that I am not.” – Michael Carini
6. “Some people don’t understand the importance of solitude. I don’t always want to be stimulated. I don’t always want noise. In fact, when I find my alone time, that’s when I find myself. Alone time helps me put myself first. It helps me reset life.” – S. McNutt
7. “It took me a long time to love myself, years actually. With that being said, you either like me or you don’t. I have no time to try and convince anyone to value all that I am.” – Daniel Franzese
8. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya
9. “I will never apologize for being me, but I will apologize for the times that I am not.” – Michael Carini
10. “When I’m by myself, I can be myself, which is what I want to be. Not just part of someone else.” – Jean Culligan

Quotes on Self Respect and Love

1. “Self love, self respect, self worth… there is a reason they all start with ‘self’. You can’t find them in anyone else.”– Dr. Anne Brown
2. “I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.” – Erin Van Vuren
3. “The respect you show to others (or lack thereof) is an immediate reflection on your self respect.” – Alex Elle
4. “You are good enough. You do deserve good things. You are smart enough. You are worthy of love and respect.” – Lorri Faye
5. “It is the highest form of self respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.” – Dale Turner
6. “Know your worth. You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served.” – Tene Edwards
7. “Their opinions are not your oxygen.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
8. “All relationships are a reflection of your relationship with yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
9. “I’ve learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth… I must walk away. I owe it to myself… I owe it to my future.” – Steve Maraboli
10. “Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.” – Miguel Angel Ruiz

Self Love Attitude Quotes About Myself

1. “People have to pretend you’re a bad person so they don’t feel guilty about the things they did to you.” – Unknown
2. “This is my life… my story… my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it; nor will I apologize for the edits I make.” – Steve Maraboli
3. “I don’t fit into any stereotypes and I like myself that way.” – C. Joybell
4. “I am, indeed, a king because I know how to rule myself.” – Pietro Aretino
5. “I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein
6. “I can’t control your behavior, nor do I want that burden… but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated, I have standards, step up or step out.” – Steve Maraboli
7. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
8. “No one can rescue me. I know because I’ve already tried to get them to do it. It doesn’t work. This is all on me.” – Michelle D’Avella
9. “I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “Doubt me, hate me, you’re the inspiration I need.” – Anonymous

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Conclusion

Self love quotes can help recharge you when you’ve been showing yourself a little less love than usual. We all have moments where we question if we’re loving ourselves enough, repressing ourselves too much, and we spend way too much time trying to make ourselves conform to be liked. But we hope that these self love quotes remind you that you’re perfect the way you are. All you need to do is be yourself.

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Many people at some point in their lives are depressed and full of negative thoughts like…

“I’m a complete and utter mess and people don’t like me.”

“I hate myself. I am so worthless and can’t do anything right.”

“I just can’t fix the problems that are going on in my life.”

If any of these thoughts resonate with you, self-love is the way to break free from it.

It’s difficult to be loving yourself especially when you look at your past mistakes, the number of people you disappointed (yourself included), or judgemental thoughts that pop into your head. All of these feelings are natural as we experience negativity, doubt, and even failure.

But the truth is, we all make mistakes and fail at least once in life. Learn how to love yourself and accept your own thoughts is mental strength. Dive into this list of self-love quotes to remind yourself to love yourself for who you are.

44 Self-Love Quotes To Love Yourself And Be Mentally Stronger

1. Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.

2. Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.

3. Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.

4. Be yourself. An original is so much better than a copy.

5. You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.

6. Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

7. If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.

8. Stop underestimating yourself.

9. You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.

10. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

11. You are free, you are powerful, you are good, you are love, you have value, you have a purpose. All is well.

12. Put yourself at the top of your to-do list every single day and the rest will fall into place.

13. Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like your love yourself. Love yourself.

14. Believe in yourself a little more.

15. You were born to be real, not to be perfect.

16. One day I woke up and realised I was not made for anyone, I was made for me. I am my own.

17. There’s no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let others get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.

18. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here.

19. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

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

21. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

22. Confidence is the ability to feel beautiful, without needing someone to tell you.

23. Self-confidence is the best outfit.

24. In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.

25. Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.

26. Regardless of how anyone else feels about me, I am going to choose to love myself today.

27. No one is you and that is your power.

28. When I accept myself just as I am, I am freed from the burden of needing you accept me.

29. I am accepting myself unconditionally no matter what.

30. There is no sense in punishing your future for the mistakes of your past. Forgive yourself, grow from it, and then let it go.

31. Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

32. Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.

33. Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish. It makes you indestructible.

34. Self-love. It doesn’t mean that everyone will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It means that you won’t let them change the way you see yourself; nor will you stick around for them to destroy you.

35. If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.

36. Demonstrate love by giving it, unconditionally, to yourself. And as you do, you will attract others into your life who will love you without conditions.

37. Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.

38. I am not looking to escape my darkness, I’m learning to love myself there.

39. You’re a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.

40. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

41. To love yourself is to understand you don’t need to be perfect to be good.

42. Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.

43. Loving yourself is the greatest revolution

44. A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

Final Thought

Using a self-love caption as a tool for mental resilience is smart and often necessary for those who emotionally harm themselves with their thoughts.

These quotes are able to serve as prompts and reminders that self-love is needed for growth and that everything you’re experiencing is natural. Learn to love yourself, and you’ll find it easier to appreciate what you have and where you will go in your life.

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In this post I want to share the most powerful quotes on self love and self-esteem that I’ve found in the past decade.

Because some things may be equally essential but nothing is more important than a healthy sense of self-esteem and loving yourself.

Why?

In my experience, three of the most important reasons are:

1. Life becomes simpler and lighter. 

When you love yourself more then things simply become lighter and easier.

You won’t overthink and make as many mountains out of molehills (or out of plain air) as you used to when you had a lack of self esteem. Or beat yourself up or drag yourself down over mistakes or temporary setbacks.

2. You’ll have more inner stability and self-sabotage less. 

When your opinion of yourself goes up then you’ll stop trying to get so much validation and attention from other people.

You become less needy and find an inner stability and strength even when your world might be negative or uncertain at times.

The increasing level of self-esteem and self worth also makes you feel more deserving of good things in life and so you’ll self-sabotage less and go after what you deep down want with more motivation and focus than ever before.

3. You’ll be happier. 

The main reason why value my self-esteem so highly, why I write about this topic so often and have created a whole 12-week course around it is simply because it has made my own life so much happier and more fun.

But instead of sharing my own thoughts and experiences like I usually do I’d like to take a different approach today.

I’d like to share 101 of the most inspiring, thought provoking and uplifting thoughts from the past 2400 years on getting to know yourself, going from low self-esteem to high self-esteem and finding a self love.

Bonus: Download a free step-by-step checklist that will show you how to improve your self-esteem and keep it stable (it’s easy to save as a PDF or print out for whenever you need it during your day or week).

Inspiring Quotes on Self Love and Self-Esteem

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
 – Buddha

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”
– M. Scott Peck

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
– Mark Twain

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
– Harvey Fierstein

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
– Lucille Ball

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”
– Fred Rogers

“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
– Jean Shinoda Bolen

“Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”
– Parker Palmer

“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.”
– Harry Palmer

“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
– Brigham Young

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
– William James

“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
– Robert Morley

“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”
– Tina Fey

“So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.”
– Alan Watts

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”
– Brené Brown

“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”
– Rob Liano

“To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.”
– Sandra Bierig

“I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
– Henry James

“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”
– Denis Waitley

“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.”
– Andrew Matthews

“Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.”
– Dan Coppersmith

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”
– Elizabeth Gaskell

“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
– Stacey Charter

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
– Howard Washington Thurman

”If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.”
– Wayne Dyer

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
– Mark Twain

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
– Sir Edmund Hillary

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
– Michael J. Fox

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Henry Ford

“No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.”
– Edmond Mbiaka

“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”
– Katrina Mayer

“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
– Deborah Day

“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.”
– Eartha Kitt

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”
– Helen Keller

“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
– Louise L. Hay

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance”
– Oscar Wilde

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
– André Gide

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
– Frederick Douglass

“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here.”
– Venus Williams

“If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.”
– Vironika Tugaleva

“I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.” 
– Queen Latifah

“We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.”
– Mary Dunbar

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
– Charles Bukowski

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
– Louise Hay

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
– Maya Angelou

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
– James Baldwin

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
– Haruki Murakami

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.”
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.”
– Anna Taylor

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
– Melanie Koulouris

“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
– Diane Von Furstenberg

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
– Robert Hand

“I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
– Johnny Depp

“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”
– Yogi Bhajan

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”
– W.C. Fields

“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”
– Brian Andreas

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
– Benjamin Spock

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
– Lao-Tzu

“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”
– Wayne Dyer

“There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.”
– Hindu Proverb

“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”
– Kristen Neff

“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”
– T. Harv Eker

“When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self-acceptance opened.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
– Eckhart Tolle

“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
– Jean Vanier

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
– Rumi

“When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.”
– Gabrielle Bernstein

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head.”
– Victoria Moran

“You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.”
– Dr. Robert Anthony

“Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.”
– Beau Taplin

“Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.”
– Coco Chanel

“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
– Ram Dass

“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”
– Rita Mae Brown

“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”
– Anais Nin

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.”
– Barbara De Angelis

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.”
– Sidney J. Harris

“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small.  My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
– Kim McMillen

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Anaïs Nin

“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”
– Sally Field

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
– Bob Moawad

“Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one’s best.”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

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There is no better way to prioritize yourself and your dreams than to start your day by reading these self-love quotes. 

Everyone wants to be loved, and some even spend their whole lives searching for that feeling. We crave the intimacy, trust, and stability that romantic relationships provide, so we endlessly search the world for someone who will provide those for us.

However, our constant search for love from other people makes us forget about the existence and importance of self-love. We fail to look at ourselves and realize that unconditional and stable love comes from within.

So, starting today, practice loving yourself more and more each day. Have some compassion and understanding for yourself, and know that you are important to the world.

Read our complete collection below to guide you in adapting self-love.

Begin here.

And don’t forget to check out these positive quotes.

1. “Self-love is an ocean, and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.” – Beau Taplin

2. “Love yourself when you’re tired. Love yourself when you’re weak. Love yourself when you’re confused. Love yourself when you’re broken. Love yourself when you’re restored.” – Anonymous

3. “Find the love you seek by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

4. “Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.” – Thaddeus Golas

5. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

6. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

7. “Unconditional self-love is all that really matters in life. It’s where real life begins.” – Anonymous

8. “Self-love—it doesn’t mean that everyone will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It means that you won’t let them change the way you see yourself, nor will you stick around for them to destroy you.” – Tony Gaskins

9. “Self-love is the way to you, to happiness, to possibilities, and to abundance.” – Nitin Namdeo

10. “No other love, no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.” – Edmond Mbiaka

11. “Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” – Maryam Hasnaa

12. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde

13. “Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” – Aberjhani

14. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur

Inspirational Self-Love Quotes

15. “Self-love is necessary for a functional and successful life.” – Angela C. Santomero

16. “Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.” – Les Brown

17. “Loving oneself isn’t hard when you understand who and what ‘yourself’ is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair, or the quality of your clothes. It’s so beyond all of those things, and it’s what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.” – Phylicia Rashad

18. “I’m not going to apologize for who I am, and I’m going to actually love the skin that I’m in. I’m not gonna be striving for some other version of myself.” – Amy Schumer

19. “The biggest reason to love yourself unconditionally is that you are born for you, only for you, to live your own life, to breathe your own breath.” – Nitin Namdeo

20. “You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – Anonymous

21. “Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself.” – Don Miguel Ruiz

22. “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise Hay

23. “Regardless of the circumstances, you are always with you, and this is the only reason why you should love yourself first.” – Nitin Namdeo

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Self-Love Quotes to Encourage You to Start Prioritizing Yourself

24. “Be the love you never received.” – Rune Lazuli

25. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski

26. “Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.” – Tyra Banks

27. “Self-respect, self-worth, and self-love all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.” – Rob Liano

28. “You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.” – Jennifer Lopez

29. “It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.” – Diane von Furstenberg

30. “When you feel your worst is when you need to love yourself more.” – Anonymous

31. “It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.” – Eartha Kitt

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32. “We can’t be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it—within.” – Alexandra Elle

33. “In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.” – Andrea Dykstra

34. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown

35. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer

36. “Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” – Anna Taylor

37. “When you make a mistake, respond to yourself in a loving way rather than a self-shaming way.” – Ellie Holcomb

38. “You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.” – Rupi Kaur

39. “If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better, and that makes you so happy.” – Kristin Chenoweth

40. “To love yourself is to understand you don’t need to be perfect to be good.” – Anonymous

41. “Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself. Love yourself.” – Anonymous

42. “Regardless of how anyone else feels about me, I am going to choose to love myself today.” – Anonymous

43. “To accept oneself completely is to know the truest kind of self-love.” – Anonymous

44. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain

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45. “Love yourself more, you’ll never regret it.” – Ann Marie Molina

46. “Talk to yourself like someone you love.” – Brené Brown

47. “Gonna love myself. No, I don’t need anybody else.” – Hailee Steinfeld

48. “Unless your soul is pure, you cannot love yourself.” – Nitin Namdeo

49. “Give yourself the love you’re willing to give to others.” – Mahin Ismail

50. “I am not looking to escape my darkness. I’m learning to love myself here.” – Anonymous

51. “Your soul will never be fully nourished by anyone’s love but your own.” – Anonymous

52. “Love yourself so much that people around you also get attracted to you.” – Nitin Namdeo

53. “Being in love with yourself is the most beautiful thing.” – Anonymous

54. “Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.” – Anonymous

55. “Unconditional love is self-love only.” – Nitin Namdeo

Love Yourself Quotes That Are Packed With Wisdom

56. “Loving ourselves points us to capacities of resilience, compassion, and understanding within that are simply part of being alive.” – Kristin Neff

57. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.” – Brené Brown

58. “Sometimes, your soulmate is yourself. Sometimes, you have to be the love of your life until you discover that type of love in someone else.” – R.H. Sin

59. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” – Barbara De Angelis

60. “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” – Anonymous

61. “A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” – Haruki Murakami

62. “I just wanted to remind you, in case you needed to hear it, to be kind and loving to yourself, and talk to yourself like you would talk to your best friend.” – Camila Cabello

63. “Healthy self-love means being gentle with the soul within you. To love oneself is the purest, bravest thing. Anybody in the entire world can experience self-love. Just do the simple acts of love for yourself, and then your authentic self begins.” – Anonymous

64. “We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.” – Don Miguel Ruiz

65. “Self-kindness is self-empathy. And even when I talk to myself like someone I love, and it feels weird, it works.” – Brené Brown

66. “Being grateful for life means you are loving yourself as you are.” – Nitin Namdeo

67. “If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” – Anonymous

68. “Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognize it.” – Rena Rose

69. “Loving yourself is like gardening the flowers within you and expecting it from others is like putting the fork in your garden.” – Nitin Namdeo

70. “In the entire universe, you play such a huge role. The self-esteem and love you have for yourself is the only gift you need to give. It isn’t a selfish act to love yourself hard. Only you can love yourself to the fullest because you understand why every aspect of your life has happened. A self-love deficit isn’t what will bring you joy. The wrong mental attitude can be devastating in the world. If you have true self-esteem and high self-love, you can share that love with the world around you. To love oneself is to love the world, and a person learns that only when they show themselves the kindness they deserve.” – Anonymous

Interesting Self-Love Quotes on What This Kind of Love Entails

71. “You become the best version of yourself when you know the value of self-love.” – Nitin Namdeo

72. “Self-love is such a treatment that can heal your soul.” – Nitin Namdeo

73. “Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish. It makes you indestructible.” – Anonymous

74. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits, anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now, I see it as self-loving.” – Kim McMillen

75. “If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don’t love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can’t give anything else but that.” – Gisele Bündchen

76. “As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know this is ‘authenticity.’” – Charlie Chaplin

77. “To me, it’s that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.” – Goldie Hawn

78. “It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. It is only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the heart of others.” – Robin Sharma

79. “Nothing else falls into line when you’re cold to your own person. Everything else falls into line when you open your heart to yourself and stay true to your own person.” – Anonymous

80. “Sometimes, you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” – Robert Tew

81. “As I began to love myself, I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health—food, people, things, situations, and everything that drawn me down and away from myself.” – Charlie Chaplin

Self-Love Quotes for Everyone Who Needs a New Perspective

82. “If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.” – Wayne Dyer

83. “Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.” – Zoë Kravitz

84. “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” – Maya Angelou

85. “Regard yourself, love yourself, on the grounds that there has never been an individual like you and there never will be again.” – Osho

86. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen

87. “When you love yourself, there’s no such thing as low self-esteem. Establish true self-esteem to experience the best kind of love with yourself.” – Anonymous

88. “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself—what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.” – Warsan Shire

89. “Unless we love and treat ourselves well, we are ill-equipped to do the same for others.” – Angela C. Santomero

Self-Love Quotes About Taking Care of Yourself

90. “Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with the path of deep healing. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion, and respect to your own journey.” – Sylvester McNutt

91. “The self-love needed for self-care is missing. Academicians use terms like self-esteem, self-worth, self-support, and self-care, but rarely self-love. That is left to the spiritual community. People don’t realize that taking care of their own needs, eating, drinking, brushing their teeth, showering, wearing clean clothes, going to work are all acts of self-love.” – Angela C. Santomero 

92. “Put yourself first. Self-love is not selfish at all. It means that you’re taking care of yourself, and like my mom reinforced to me, to make sure that I was safe and that I was healthy.” – Laurie Hernandez

More Love Yourself Quotes to Guide You in Your Journey

93. “Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.” – Anonymous

94. “There are many ways to love yourself. You should try every day a new way.” – Nitin Namdeo

95. “Learn to love yourself enough to be happy in your own company, not needing to use anyone as an escape.” – Samantha Camargo

96. “Demonstrate love by giving it, unconditionally, to yourself. And as you do, you will attract others into your life who will love you without conditions.” – Anonymous

97. “I’m constantly amazed by how easily we love ourselves above all others, yet we put more stock in the opinions of others than in our own estimation of self. How much credence we give to the opinions our peers have of us and how little to our very own!” – Marcus Aurelius

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

99. “The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people’s love for you.” – Edmond Mbiaka

100. “Loving you, caring you, respecting you, and appreciating you is not the duty of others. It’s all your responsibility.” – Nitin Namdeo

How Do You Practice Self-Love?

We can all agree on how hard it is to be kind to ourselves on our lowest and darkest days. Most of us beat ourselves up for making mistakes and experiencing failures, even if it is a part of life and being human. We wallow in this sadness and forget it is up to us to make ourselves better than before.

We sometimes wait for someone to make us feel better because our hate for ourselves makes us forget to consider self-love. Some of us even believe that loving ourselves is selfish and cruel. However, it is the opposite. 

Self-love goes beyond ourselves because it touches other people, too. You spread compassion, happiness, and warmth to everyone you meet when you love yourself. Love starts within us, and it’s not good to always rely on others.

Hopefully, these self-love quotes were able to teach you what it means to love yourself. Live a life full of love, and take out this list whenever you need a reminder. 

Which self-love quote is your favorite? Do you have more quotes to add to the collection? Comment below!

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