Self-love is essential for building confidence and living a fulfilling life. These 76 empowering self-love quotes offer encouragement to help you appreciate and accept yourself as you are. Let them serve as gentle reminders to prioritize your own well-being and self-worth every day.
Self-Love Quotes
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha
- “Self-care is not a luxury; it is a necessity.” — Audre Lorde
- “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Love yourself first, because that’s who you’ll be spending the rest of your life with.” — Unknown
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier.” — Diane Von Furstenberg
- “You are enough just as you are.” — Meghan Markle
- “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” — Coco Chanel
- “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” — Robert Morley
- “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde
- “You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” — R.Z.
- “Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.” — Judy Garland
- “Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.” — Katrina Mayer
- “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” — Robert Holden
- “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” — Robert Hand
- “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” — Rumi
- “Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again.” — Osho
- “Talk to yourself like someone you love.” — Brené Brown
- “Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.” — Unknown
- “You were born to be real, not to be perfect.” — Unknown
- “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” — Wayne Dyer
- “The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you’ll tolerate.” — Unknown
- “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right there.” — Venus Williams
- “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” — Steve Maraboli
- “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” — Malcolm S. Forbes
- “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.” — Roy T. Bennett
- “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” — William Shakespeare
- “Loving yourself is the first step towards a peaceful life.” — Unknown
- “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself.” — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- “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
- “Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” — Aberjhani
- “Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.” — Unknown
- “Self-love seems so often unrequited.” — Anthony Powell
- “Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.” — Unknown
- “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that.” — Stacey Charter
- “Loving yourself isn’t selfish; it’s self-respect.” — Unknown
- “Only when you’re kinder to yourself, can you truly be kind to others.” — Unknown
- “Loving oneself is the foundation of all other love.” — Pierre Corneille
- “Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.” — Unknown
- “Make happiness your priority, and be gentle with yourself in the process.” — Unknown
- “Love yourself enough to set boundaries.” — Anna Taylor
- “Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Mind. Body. Spirit.” — Unknown
- “You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.” — Unknown
- “Self-respect is a discipline; it’s about being able to love yourself in the truest sense.” — Unknown
- “Be good to yourself, and the rest will follow.” — Unknown
- “No one is you, and that is your superpower.” — Unknown
- “Choose, everyday, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all, worthy of love.” — Alison Malee
- “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” — Maya Angelou
- “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much, there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.” — Karl Lagerfeld
- “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Be so completely yourself that everyone else feels safe to be themselves, too.” — Unknown
- “Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.” — Christopher Germer
- “Accept who you are; and revel in it.” — Mitch Albom
- “You don’t need anyone’s permission to be yourself.” — Unknown
- “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” — Sally Field
- “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” — Michel de Montaigne
- “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy.” — Kim McMillen
- “Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time.” — Unknown
- “Be kind to the child within you.” — Unknown
- “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” — Unknown
- “You are not your mistakes; they are what you did, not who you are.” — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
- “Once you embrace your value, talents, and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” — Rob Liano
- “Self-love is a great way to stop picking people who don’t love you.” — Unknown
- “If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” — Unknown
- “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.” — Maya Angelou
- “Your greatest responsibility is to love yourself and to know you are enough.” — Unknown
- “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.
- “Put yourself at the top of your to-do list every single day, and the rest will fall into place.” — Unknown
- “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” — Sophia Bush
- “Being comfortable in your own skin is one of the most beautiful things.” — Unknown
- “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Don’t forget to fall in love with yourself first.” — Carrie Bradshaw
- “Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is simply believing you’re worthy of the trip.” — Glenn Beck
- “Never be ashamed of loving the strange little things that make you weird.” — Unknown
- “Be your own biggest cheerleader.” — Unknown
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
