Self-love is essential for a fulfilling life.
It means treating yourself with kindness, compassion, and respect... creating a foundation of emotional well-being that supports all areas of your life.
Practicing self-love allows you to develop a more positive self-image, better appreciate your strengths, and accept your weaknesses. You approach challenges with confidence and optimism, and you become more resilient, compassionate, and confident.
Self-love also helps you create healthy relationships by setting boundaries, communicating effectively, and making choices that align with your values and needs. When you love yourself, you are open to receiving love from others and are less likely to settle for anything less.
Self-love is a powerful tool for personal growth and transformation — and we’ve collected the best quotes all about self-love. We hope that these allow you to prioritize self-love in your own life — and helps you to create a foundation of emotional well-being that supports you in achieving your goals and living the life you truly desire.
The Best Self Love Quotes To Celebrate & Love Yourself —
Famous Quotes
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to haceppiness.”
— Robert Morley
“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”
— Anaïs Nin
“I’m all about body positivity and self-love because I believe that we can save the world if we first save ourselves.”
— Lizzo
“Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”
— Princess Diana
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
— Buddha
“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”
— Eartha Kitt
“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.”
— E.E Cummings
“I think no matter what you look like, the key first of all is to be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to improve things you don’t like about yourself, then do it after you appreciate yourself.”
— Adele
Short Quotes
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.”
— Maya Angelou
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
— Mark Twain
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
— William Shakespeare
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
— Sylvia Plath
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
— Rumi
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— Mary Ann Evans
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
— Dolly Parton
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
— Carl Gustav Jung
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
— Benjamin Spock
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
— Maya Angelou
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
— Jean Vanier
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
— Madonna
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”
— Sally Field
“By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.”
— Laverne Cox
“You are enough just as you are.”
— Meghan Markle
Quotes About Loving Yourself
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
— Lucille Ball
“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
“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.”
— Anna Taylor
“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
Motivational Quotes
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.”
— Rumi
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”
— Brené Brown
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
— Golda Meir
“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.”
— Charlie Chaplin
“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
“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
— George R.R. Martin
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
— William Faulkner
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It took me a long time to love myself, years actually. With that being said, you either like me or you don’t. I have no time to try and convince anyone to value all that I am.”
— Daniel Franzese
“I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.”
— Albert Einstein
“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
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
— Audre Lorde
On Self Worth
“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.”
— Beyoncé
“Stand up for who you are. Respect yourself and ignite the divine sparks in you.”
— Amit Ray
“Don’t fall into the trap of sacrificing your self-esteem for affection and acceptance.”
— Ashley Graham
“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
“You are responsible for your own emotional and mental well-being and if you have given someone else the power over your life for those two things you should immediately take back control.”
— Germany Kent
“Put yourself first. Self-love is not selfish at all. It means that you’re taking care of yourself, and like my mom reinforced to me, to make sure that I was safe and that I was healthy.”
— Laurie Hernandez
“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
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
— Alice Walker
“We are stronger, talented, smarter, and more resilient than we were told.”
— CeCe McDonald
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”
— Anna Freud
More Quotes & Captions
“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
“I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I’d want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps.”
— Emma Stone
“Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right— and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head.”
— Victoria Moran
“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
“It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.”
— Laverne Cox
“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 judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
— Kim McMillen, When I Loved Myself Enough
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”
— Brené Brown
“You get the benefits of both giving and receiving compassion when you offer it to yourself.”
— Rick Hanson
“We just need to be kinder to ourselves. If we treated ourselves the way we treated our best friend, can you imagine how much better off we would be?”
— Meghan Markle
“But self-kindness involves more than merely stopping self-judgment. It involves actively comforting ourselves, responding just as we would to a dear friend in need.”
— Kristin Neff
“I can’t be there for other people unless I’m there for myself. I can’t really work to push our movement without really investing in myself. By investing in yourself you’re also investing in your community.”
— Dior Vargas
“Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing, and work hard. The right people — the ones who really belong in your life — will come to you. And stay.”
— Will Smith
“It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.”
— Sidney J. Harris
“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
