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Love Yourself Quotes

The best love yourself quotes give us a lot to think about. Loving yourself is not necessarily selfish or narcissistic. Self-love is critical for living your best life. Loving yourself allows you to be comfortable in your own body.

It helps you manage adversity better. Self-love allows you to trust in yourself and your aspirations. Overall, self-love strengthens your happiness, fulfillment, and motivation.

These reflections can be a reminder to love yourself even when you’re feeling down. Enjoy.

Best Love Yourself Quotes

1.) Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

2.) You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

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

4.) Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Mind. Body. Spirit.
Unknown

5.) A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

6.) You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.
Unknown

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7.) You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here.
Venus Williams

8.) Forget about self-image and self-judgment. It’s about self-love, and no one teaches you that at school. No one teaches you that if you accept and love yourself, nothing and no one can touch you. This is the only face and body you’re ever going to get, so be comfortable and happy in it. Own it. Own every aspect of who you are and present it to the world with the utmost pride.
Connor Franta

9.) I am not looking to escape my darkness, I’m learning to love myself there.
Rune Lazuli

10.) If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Kristin Chenoweth

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Inspirational Love Yourself Quotes

11.) 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

12.) Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.
Stacey Charter

13.) Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude.
Unknown

14.) Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Washington Thurman

15.) Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.
Brené Brown

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16.) In a society that profits from your self-doubt, loving yourself is a rebellious act.
Unknown

17.) Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. And, because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Lao-Tzu

18.) Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Veronica A. Shoffstall

19.) Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.
Ellen Sue Stern

20.) Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.
Warsan Shire

21.) Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.
Tyra Banks

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22.) How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others.
Steve Maraboli

23.) Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself, and a little less time trying to impress people.
The Breakfast Club

24.) Stand up for who you are. Respect yourself and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.
Amit Ray

25.) One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others.
Bell Hooks

26.) I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human who’s not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.
Emma Watson

27.) But there’s a hope that’s waiting for you in the dark You should know you’re beautiful just the way you are And you don’t have to change a thing.
Alessia Cara

Love Yourself Quotes

28.) To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
Robert Morely

29.) Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Gustav Jung

30.) You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.
Yogi Bahaman

31.) Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay

32.) Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.
Dan Coppersmith

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Inspiring Love Yourself Quotes

33.) Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It is sanity.
Katrina Mayer

34.) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

35.) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

36.) To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh

37.) Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
Coco Chanel

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38.) Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.
Parker Palmer

39.) Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.) A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
Andrew Matthews

41.) You were born to be real, not to be perfect.
Unknown

42.) Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes

43.) As women, we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other’s worth. Seek out strong women to befriend, to align yourself with, to learn from, to collaborate with, to be inspired by, to support, and enlightened by.
Madonna

Quotes About Loving Yourself

44.) Admire someone else’s beauty without questioning your own.
Unknown

45.) 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

46.) Independence comes from knowing who you are and being happy with yourself.
Beyonce

47.) I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
Shailene Woodley

48.) 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.

49.) Fall in love with your solitude.
Rupi Kaur

50.) 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.
Charlie Chaplin

51.) If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.
Thomas S. Monson

52.) The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney

Faith in Yourself Quotes

53.) I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally, it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.
Queen Latifah

54.) Self-love takes time. Days, months, years… don’t rush it. We’re all working on it.
Wolftyla

55.) I love my body, and I would never change anything about it. I’m not asking you to like my body. I’m just asking you to let me be me.
Serena Williams

56.) 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.

57.) 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

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58.) Don’t let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.
Nikki Rowe

59.) You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
Diane Von Furstenberg

60.) Be a pineapple: stand tall, wear a crown, and be sweet on the inside.
Unknown

61.) I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

62.) Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
Tina Fey

Self-Love Quotes

63.) 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

64.) Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won’t know what you’re really capable of.
Louise Hay

65.) When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits–anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.
Kim McMillen

66.) I’m all about body positivity and self-love because I believe that we can save the world if we first save ourselves.
Lizzo  

Best Self-Love Quotes

67.) Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

68.) 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

69.) I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Madonna

70.) The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E.E Cummings

71.) Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout loud, ‘I am lucky to be what I am!
Dr. Seuss

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72.) We can only love others as much as we love ourselves.
Brené Brown

73.) Plant hope in your heart’s wounds.
Alexandra Vasiliu

74.) To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
Robert Morley

75.) Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare

76.) Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. 
Eleanor Roosevelt

77.) There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship. 
Nayyirah Waheed

78.) Our first and last love is self love.
Christian Nestell Bovee

79.) Embrace the glorious mess that you are.
Elizabeth Gilbert

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About Michael O'Halloran.

Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.

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