Here are 140 of the best “love yourself” quotes. Yes, self-love is probably one of the most important thing you can accomplish in your life. So start with that first, and then expand your love to others. Hope you’ll find inspiration, my friend.
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
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
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
The Best Love Yourself Quotes
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
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
If you live to please others, everyone will love you except yourself. Paulo Coelho
No one knows how you treat yourself, but it’s the most important relationship you have. Bill Masur
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 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
A true sign of greatness: you are not bothered by others’ brilliance, nor are you afraid to share your own with others. You are secure in the knowledge that no one can take away your unique gifts. @TheAncientSage
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.)
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. Oscar Wilde
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Carl Jung
Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neglect. William Shakespeare
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
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
Don’t be hard on yourself. Be kind. Yoko Ono
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
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
You don’t need another person, place or thing to make you whole. Maya Angelou
Love your neighbor as yourself. Mark 12:31
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. Maxwell Maltz
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
I celebrate myself, and sing myself. Walt Whitman
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark Twain
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
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Short Self-Love And Love Yourself Quotes
One-liners, short self-love quotes, sayings, thoughts and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, 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
Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity. Katrina Mayer
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 And Positive Love Yourself Quotes
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
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
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
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
The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself. Robert Greene
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball
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
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. Jean Vanier
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
It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. W.C. Fields
What if you simply devoted this year to loving yourself more? Unknown
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Funny And Surprising Love Yourself Quotes
A healthy self is one that doesn’t take itself seriously. Right?
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. Anne Lamott
It’s important to feel crappy sometimes. Lilly Singh
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone”. Epictetus
Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul. Osho
F.L.Y. First Love Yourself. Others will come next. Unknown
Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time. Unknown
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Deep Love Yourself Quotes
Loving others is a complex thing. Loving ourselves perhaps even more. Do you agree? Let’s find out.
Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period. Jordan Peterson
Love appears as relationship but begins in deep solitude. Osho
Maturity comes only when you are ready to face the pain of your being; maturity comes only when you are ready to take the challenge. And there is no greater challenge than love. Osho
It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves. Alain de Botton
Man cannot control himself unless he accepts himself. Alan Watts
Our problem is that we choose to deny love. In fact, we only have one problem: that our mind chooses fear over love. Gabby Bernstein (Spirit Junkie)
To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly. Brené Brown (Daring Greatly)
I’m not very good at giving anyone a clear no. Haruki Murakami
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
Don’t carry the weight of the world upon your shoulders. Saving anyone or anything is not your responsibility. @LifeMathMoney
If you have a hard time saying “I love you” it’s because you don’t love yourself. Pat Stedman
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. Francis Meehan
You cannot inadvertently allow yourself to feel obligated to anyone. Robert Greene
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. Maya Angelou
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
If you don’t love yourself in a healthy way, you will never be able to love others in the way that you should. Joel Osteen
The fact that someone else loves you doesn’t rescue you from the project of loving yourself. Sahaj Kohli
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
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. Shannon L. Alder
Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out? Ian Wallace
Do you love yourself just as you are? Deepak Chopra
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Wise Love Yourself Quotes (Words of Wisdom)
What’s the greatest lesson in self-love? Slowing down and taking care of ourselves. Isn’t it?
Treat yourself as if you were someone that you are responsible for helping. Jordan Peterson
If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this? Kamal Ravikant
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates
Be aware of how you handle your mind. Be aware of how you treat yourself. Iyanla Vanzant
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. Pema Chödrön
Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars. Santosh Kalwar
It is better to do nothing than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself. The Dhammapada
Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment. Thich Nhat Hanh
The development of loving-kindness and compassion begins with learning how to appreciate oneself. Mingyur Rinpoche
People ask if a more mindful, more self-forgiving mindset comes at cost to your drive to win. No, I think it’s makes that drive to win sustainable. Justin Kan
Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself. Osho
You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company. Diane Von Furstenberg
Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself. Nikki Rowe
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults. Les Brown
I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. Henry James
You can do hard things without being hard on yourself. Mel Robbins
Meditation is a must before you can really love. One should be capable of being alone, utterly alone, and yet tremendously blissful. Then you can love. Osho
Man becomes mature the moment he starts loving rather than needing. He starts overflowing, sharing; he starts giving. Osho
Buddha is a Buddha, a Krishna is a Krishna, and you are you. And you are not in any way less than anybody else. Respect yourself, respect your own inner voice and follow it. Osho (Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously)
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. Jack Kornfield
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. Jack Kornfield
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Part 3. Conclusion
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, Amazon book)
