Looking for inspirational love yourself quotes that celebrate you? Here are some of our favorites self love quotes about the most important kind of love, love of self!
If you don’t love yourself how can you expect others to love you? If you don’t love yourself, you might accept a type of love that is less than what you deserve.
At times it can feel like it’s easier to love others than it is to love ourselves. We can give amazing advice to other people about how they can develop their own self-esteem, but when that conversation is over we can still struggle with loving ourselves.
We can give great advice to others and talk to them in such a thoughtful and empowering way, but then when we talk to ourselves; we’re not thoughtful, we’re hurtful. And, instead of encouraging ourselves, we’re blaming ourselves for our past.
We’ve all been there, laying in bed in the middle of the night beating ourselves up. But the good news is, we can change how we think about and talk to ourselves. You can feel good about yourself.
One of the most important lessons we can learn in life is to love ourselves because how we treat our self, will directly impact how we treat others.
Our confidence will come from self love. Our compassion and empathy will come from our ability to forgive and see the best in our on self. Quotes about self love can become mantras and change the way you speak to yourself.
Loving yourself is not a selfish act, but it’s a fundamental skill to generate the strength needed to love others. In that vein, below is our collection of inspiring, beautiful, and happy love yourself quotes, love yourself sayings, and love yourself proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.
Love yourself quotes for times when you feel like you’re not good enough
1.) Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
2.) Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.
― Gary Zukav
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
Quotes about love that are like mantras
4.) “You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Self Love quotes about self esteem and confidence
5.) Too many people what they are not and undervalue what they are.
― Malcolm S. Forbes
6.) “When you’re constantly thinking of others and what they must be thinking or feeling or expecting, you wind up in this perpetual state of trying to please them. You see yourself through their eyes and you lose sight of who you are.”
― Michael Soll, Scorched
7.) “Don’t let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.”
― Nikki Rowe
8.) “Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.”
― Nikki Rowe
9.) I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
― Walt Whitman
Love quotes about dreams and goals
10.) “Love yourself and dream bigger.”
― Teresa Collins, Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
11.) You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.
― Yogi Bahaman
12.) The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
― William James
Love yourself quotes that will make you smile
13.) I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.
14.) “There are women who struggle to gain weight who are beautiful. There are women who struggle to LOSE weight who are beautiful. You know who is the most beautiful? Those who learn to love themselves the way they are. You don’t need to change for ANYONE.”
― Teresa Mummer
15.) It isn’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
― W.C. Fields
16.) “When admiring other people’s gardens, don’t forget to tend to your own flowers.” ― Sandbar Khan
17.) “Words always remain words, the world will change” ― Mayan Kumar Louteriya
Love quotes about relationships with others
18.) “Love others to make them feel better and so that you see yourself in the mirrors of their eyes.”
― Debasish Mridha
19.) To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
― Alan Cohen
Quotes about loving yourself and finding your gifts
20.) “You can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself.”
― Teresa Collins
21.) 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
22.) To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
23.) Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it
― Thaddeus Golas
24.) “Sometimes you have to be alone to truly know your worth.”
― Karen A. Baquiran
I love myself quotes about treating others with compassion
25.) Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
― William James
26.) “You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won’t do a thing unless you believe it yourself.”
― Criss Jami, Healology
Love quotes about respect and value
27.) “Respect, Love, and Value yourself. Always remember to be good to yourself by taking care of yourself. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay. Don’t feel guilty for loving yourself, first! You’re just as important as anybody else.”
― Stephanie Lahart
28.) “Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?”
― Nikki Rowe
29.) Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
― William Shakespeare, Henry V.
Love yourself quotes and sayings
30.) “The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people’s love for you.”
― Edmond Mbiaka
31.) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
32.) Our entire life … consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.”
― Jean Anouih
33.) There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
― Hindu Proverb
34.) “Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can’t stand not to love someone else.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After
35.) Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
36.) “Love yourself enough to have a meaningful life.”
― Millen Livis
Self love quotes about dreams and goals
37.) “Don’t suffocate your spirit for the lessons that were only passing through spring.”
― Nikki Rowe
38.) “If you ever want to love someone, love yourself unconditionally first.”
― Debasish Mridha
39.) 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
40.) “You say you need to love others, but do you love yourself”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
41.) Everything worth having costs something, and the price of true love is self-knowledge.
Quotes about loving yourself and being who you were meant to be
42.) I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?”
― Golden Hawn
43.) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
― George Eliot
44.) “You have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. Because it’s only when we love ourselves that we feel worthy of someone else’s love.”
― Alyssa B. Sheinmel, Faceless
45.) The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.
― C. JoyBell C.
46.) “No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.”
― Edmond Mbiaka
47.) “Others can’t always define your true identity. They see what they ‘want’ to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it’s good!”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue
Love yourself quotes to lift your spirit
48.) “Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head,
It will get easier, your dreams are not dead.”
― Nikki Rowe
49.) Loving yourself…does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion.
― Margo Anand
50.) “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.”
― Roy Bennett
51.) Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.
― Daphne Rose Kingman
52.) Your problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
― Ram Dass
53.) Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
― Veronica A. Shoffstall
54.) “You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be the one. If you can wrap yourself around the idea that you are something incredible, then you will stop excusing behavior that rapes your very soul. You were never meant to teach someone to love you. You were meant to be loved.”
― Shannon L. Alder
Quotes about loving yourself and having great relationships
55.) The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
56.) “Be very very very gentle with yourself. The world is very very very hard on you”
― Srividya Srinivasan
57.) “People that don’t know what they are worth will always see their capture’s wings, but never their tail.”
― Shannon L. Alder
Love quotes about purpose and discovery
58.) Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
59.) A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
― Ken Keyes.
60.) “The greatest love that you could ever experience on earth is the one that only comes from you to you.”
― Edmond Mbiaka,
61.) My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.
― Shakti Gawain
62.) To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.
― Sandra Bierig
63.) Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
― Jean Vanier
64.) “Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you.”
― Germany Kent
Slef love quotes about being the real you
65.) I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
66.) “Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself.”
― Nikki Rowe
67.) “If only you knew how beautiful you are unconditionally. Don’t you know it’s enough if all you do is breathe?”
― Brittany Burgunder, Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders
68.) “even in the loneliest moments
I have been there for myself.”
― Sanober Khan
69.) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
― Louise L. Hay
70.) “You have to grow, you have to be, you have to love yourself unconditionally.”
― Dominic Riccitello
71.) 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 Keebler-Ross
72.) Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.
― Ellen Sue Stern
I love myself quotes about joy in life
73.) 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
74.) “When you establish peace, when you establish love, when you establish kindness here [inside], you cannot act any other way to the outside world.”
― Mimi Ikonn
75.) 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.”
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