These self love quotes give guidance for what most of us find the hardest thing to do, loving ourselves.
Just imagine what confident, happy people we would all be, if we were able to love ourselves, regardless of what we did, how we looked and felt, or what anyone else thought of us.
Nobody’s perfect, it’s okay to be just who you are right now and love that person. Even if you want to change many things about yourself, the first step is to accept yourself now, as you are.
Quotes are listed alphabetically on surname/source
Unknown source are at the bottom of the page
Self Love Quotes: A
Abraham-Hicks
Almost no one knows how to love themselves cause you’re running around trying to find other people to love you. Standing on your head in all kinds of different ways. ‘If I’m like this, do you like me?’ ‘If I give you this, will you like me?’ So you lose track of who you are because the more you’re looking to others to love you, the more you’re not in sync with who you are.
Give yourself the love you seek, and the universe will send people who match it.
If you’re not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can’t connect with the energy that is your Source, which does always feel good.
It is my dominant intent to be good to me.
Adele 1988
I like myself more than ever. I feel so comfortable in my own skin. I really like how I look, I like who I am. I like everyone that I surround myself with. Obviously I have insecurities, but they don’t hold me back.
Jessica Ainscough 1985 – 2015
Everything comes down to self love.
Self Love Quotes: B
Anita Baker 1958
Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.
Lucille Ball 1911 – 1989
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Raymond Charles Barker 1911 – 1988
No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.
Christian Nestell Bovee 1820 – 1904
Our first and last love is self love.
Les Brown 1945
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you, despite their faults.
Buddha 624BC – 543BC
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire Universe, deserve you love and affection.
Lorna Byrne 1953
As newborn babies, we know we are perfect and deserving of love and feel pure love for ourselves and everyone around us.
If you can love yourself more, you will be able to love others more and you will be more truly yourself.
Lorna Byrne 1953
Self love is about valuing and loving who you are.
The Angels tell me that loving ourselves is very important for our happiness.
The helplessness, vulnerability and perfection of a new baby frequently helps parents and grandparents to learn to love themselves and others.
Self Love Quotes: C
Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
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.
As I began to love myself, I understood how much it can offend somebody as I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today, I call it Respect.
As I began to love myself, I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today, I call it Maturity.
As I began to love myself, I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment, so I could be calm. Today, I call it Self-Confidence.
As I began to love myself, I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today, I call it Simplicity.
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 drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today, I know it is Love of Oneself.
As I began to love myself, I quit trying to always be right, and ever since, I was wrong less of the time. Today, I discovered that is Modesty.
As I began to love myself, I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where Everything is happening. Today, I live each day, day by day, and I call it Fulfilment.
As I began to love myself, I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But, as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today, I call this connection Wisdom of the Heart.
We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even as stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today, I know.. That is life.
Deepak Chopra 1946
Love takes many forms.. It is up to you to choose which you wish to express.
Seeing yourself with the eyes of love makes it natural to see the Divine Spirit in everyone you meet.
You were created to be completely loved and completely lovable for your whole life.
Self Love Quotes: D
Ellen Degeneres 1958
To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.
Princess Diana 1961 – 1997
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015
Look into a mirror, make eye contact with yourself, and say “I love me” as many times as possible during the day.
illustration by Sandra ReevesWayne Dyer 1940 – 2015
Remind yourself, to be kind toward yourself, in all the choices you make about your daily life.
Self Love Quotes: E
Hal Elrod 1979
Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.
Life isn’t about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you’re not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving on both.
Self Love Quotes: F
Sonya Friedman
The way you treat yourself, sets the standard for others.
Self Love Quotes: G
Kyle Gray 1988
Love yourself enough to change.
Self Love Quotes: H
David R. Hawkins 1927 – 2012
Love everyone and everything at all times, including yourself, no matter what.
Louise Hay 1926 – 2017
I listen with love to my body’s messages.
I love who I am and all that I do.
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Selma Hayek 1966
People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Robert Holden 1964
Love thyself, so that you can love another.
Love thyself so that you cannot project fear.
Love thyself so as to let others love you.
Love thyself so as to let people near.
Whitney Houston 1963 – 2012
Also sung by George Benson
written by Michael Masser & Linda Creed
I found the greatest love of all inside of me. The greatest love of all is easy to achieve, learning to love yourself, it is the greatest love of all.
Self Love Quotes: J
Susan Jeffers 1938 – 2012
The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.
Self-Love Quotes: K
Miranda Kerr 1983
A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.
Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.
You’ve really got to practice loving yourself.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 1926 – 2004
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others, but ourselves as well.
Self Love Quotes: M
Matthew-Suzanne Ward
Growing spiritually and consciously includes loving self. You could say that Soul evolvement starts with loving self, you have to know how love feels to you before you can feel love for others and be open to receiving it.
Loving self is honouring your Divinity as a part of God.
Kim McMillan ? – 1996
When I loved myself enough…
I became my own authority by listening to the wisdom of the heart. This is how God speaks to me. This is intuition.
When I loved myself enough…
I began to feel a Divine presence in me and hear its guidance.
When I loved myself enough…
I came to know I am worthy of knowing God directly.
When I loved myself enough…
I came to know my own goodness.
When I loved myself enough…
I came to love being alone surrounded by silence awed by its spell, listening to inner space.
When I loved myself enough…
I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.
Self Love Quotes: N
Christiane Northrup 1949
The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway.. It’s a paradox.
Self Love Quotes: O
Orin-Sanaya Roman
Your Higher-Self loves you unconditionally.
Self Love Quotes: P
Pleiadians-Barbara Marciniak
It is time for you to make a commitment to create joy, creativity and love for yourself, only then will you benefit others, for if you do not evolve yourself, you do not serve others.
Pythagoras 570BC – 495BC
Above the cloud with it’s shadow, is the star with it’s light. Above all things, reverence thyself.
Self-Love Quotes: R
Osho Rajneesh 1931 – 1990
Love yourself. You are needed as much as the trees, as the flowers, as the birds, as the sun, as the moon, as the stars. You have to be here and you have a right to be the way you are.
Cheryl Richardson
When you look in the mirror and say, ‘I love you,’ don’t worry if you don’t believe it yet. Love is far more powerful than your limiting beliefs.
Rena Rose
Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognize it.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273
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.
Self-Love Quotes: S
Morrie Schwartz 1916 – 1995
Keep your heart open, for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Seth-Jane Roberts 1929 – 1984
You must love yourself, before you love another. By accepting yourself and joyfully being what you are, you fulfill your own abilities, and your simple presence can make others happy.
Veronica A. Shoffstall
Plant your own garden and decorate your own Soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Susan Somerset-Webb
Love yourself first. You can’t pour from an empty vessel.
Self-Love Quotes: V
Voltaire 1694 – 1778
Self love is the instrument of our preservation.
Self Love Quotes: W
Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
Marianne Williamson 1952
There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.
Rachel Wolchin
Learn to love yourself like no one else will ever do it better… because, no one will.
Make a list of 100 things you love about yourself and then laugh because you know whoever isn’t with you, is missing out on so much.
Self Love Quotes: Unknown Source
Human Beings grow best with encouragement and Love. Today, let every word you speak (to yourself and others) be filled with kindness.
It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself and to make your happiness a priority… It’s necessary.
Love yourself, for if you don’t how can you expect anyone else to love you.
