80 Quotes for Self-Love
Self-love is one of the most beautiful forms of love.
Without loving ourselves first, it’s impossible for us to truly love others. Here are 80 self-love quotes to help you develop self-compassion, increase your feelings of self-worth, and overall love yourself a little more!
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1. “Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.”—Beyoncé
2. “Treat yourself like someone you love.”―Glennon Doyle
3. “Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.”—Deborah Day
4. "When admiring other people’s gardens, don’t forget to tend to your own flowers."––Sandbar Khan
5. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”—Eckhart Tolle
6. “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
7. “Feel the fact that you are good enough.” —Mark Nepo
8. “Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow.”—Kim Guerra
9. “Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.”—Tyra Banks
10. “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”―Jennifer Elisabeth
11. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”—Tina Fey
12. “All love begins with the love within.”—Vironika Tugaleva
13. “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”—Oscar Wilde
14. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”—Coco Chanel
15. “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” —Louise Hay
16. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”—Thich Nhat Hanh
17. “Make happiness your priority and be gentle with yourself in the process.” —Bronnie Ware
18. “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” —Wayne Dyer
19. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”—Buddha
20. “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”—Maya Angelou
21. “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”―Madonna
22. “You have to believe that your ideas, and your hope, and your being, deserve to take up space.”―Bianca Sparacino
23. “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” —Andre Gide
24. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” —Dolly Parton
25. “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?”—Ian Wallace
26. “I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe, and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.”—Louise Hay
27. “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
28. “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”—George R.R. Martin
29. “Our first and last love is self-love.”—Christian Nestell Bovee
30. “Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.”—Lalah Delia
31. “Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love.”—Alison Malee
32. “Look inward—the loving begins with you.”—Oprah Winfrey
33. “Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.”—Les Brown
34. “I’m safe inside this container called me.”―Haruki Murakami
35. “You carry so much love in your heart, give some to yourself.” —Anonymous
36. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.” —Katrina Mayer
37. “When you say ‘yes’ to others make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” — Paulo Coelho
38. “If you ever want to love someone, love yourself unconditionally first.”—Debasish Mridha
39. “I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.”—May West
40. “I celebrate myself and sing myself.”—Walt Whitman
41. “You have to be able to love yourself because that’s when things fall into place.”—Vanessa Hudgens
42. “If there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.”—Beyoncé
43. “My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”―Anaïs Nin
44. “When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.”—Solange Knowles
45. “Talk to yourself like someone you love.” – Brené Brown
46. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”—Rupi Kaur
47. “Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself.”—Don Miguel Ruiz
48. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
49. “By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.”—Laverne Cox
50. “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
51. “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” —Carl Gustav Jung
52. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” —Robert Morley
53. “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
54. “Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.”—Thaddeus Golas
55. “Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come.”—Ellen DeGeneres
56. “Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will, too.” —Jennae Cecelia
57. "Love yourself no matter who you are or where you come from."—Diane Guerrero
58. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.”—Rumi
59. “If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.”—Anne Hathaway
60. “Gonna love myself. No, I don’t need anybody else.”—Hailee Steinfeld
61. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.”—Beyoncé
62. “You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful.”―Jasmine Warga
63. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’”—Audrey Hepburn
64. “I like me. I like my story and all the bumps and bruises. That’s what makes me uniquely me.”—Michelle Obama
65. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
66. “Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.” —Queen Latifah
67. “Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
68. “Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”—Veronica A. Shoffstall
69. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”—Brené Brown
70. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”—Rumi
71. “You change the world by being yourself.” —Yoko Ono
72. “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
73. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
74. “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
75. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”—Diane Von Furstenberg
76. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”—Lucille Ball
77. “One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.”—Dwayne Johnson
78. “There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship.” —Nayyirah Waheed
79. “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”—Louise L. Hay
80. “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”―Deborah Day
I hope that you enjoyed these quotes for self-love! Let me know in the comments which one is your favorite!
xoxo, Ana