165 Self Love Quotes To Help You Love Yourself More (2024)

Have you ever considered the power of a well-chosen quote? The impact it can make on your perspective and outlook? Quotes about self-love are not just mere words, they are a treasure trove of wisdom and encouragement. They serve as reminders that you are worthy of love and respect, especially from yourself. These quotes can become your mantra, pushing you towards healing, growth, and the ultimate acceptance of who you are.

The Most Famous I Love My Self Quotes (Best in 2024)

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Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. — Max Lucado

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? — Walt Whitman

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. — Albert Einstein

I'm too full to swallow my pride — The Weeknd

I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. — Elliot Page

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

I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show! — Jared Padalecki

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you! — Dorothy Parker

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

Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy! — Wayne Dyer

Short I Love My Self Quotes

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• I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. — Madonna Ciccone
• Ask yourself what makes you come alive. — Howard Thurman
• I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself. — Mae West
• I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to. — Caterina Sforza
• I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. — William Shakespeare
• My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. — Drew Barrymore
• I am so hip even my errors are correct — Nikki Giovanni
• I love to read. My education is self-inflicted — Groucho Marx
• I listen with love to my body's messages. — Louise Hay
• I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence. — Jeannette Walls

Alone Self-love Quotes

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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. — Bell Hooks

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. — Mark Twain

Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self. — Dietrich von Hildebrand

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone. — John Piper

I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump. — Al Yankovic

Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become. — Jackie Olson

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls. — Thomas Merton

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours. — Albert Camus

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that. — Betty Friedan

My Self Love Quotes

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Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. — Marva Collins

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. — Diane von Furstenberg

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest. — Max Lucado

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney

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. — Charlie Chaplin

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

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. — Kurt Hahn

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. — Giacomo Casanova

When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills to really getting over my dad's death. If I didn't have that, I would have lost it. — Anthony Pettis

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A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem. — Naomi Wolf

Self Worth Self Love Quotes

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I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. — Johnny Depp

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them. — Iyanla Vanzant

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

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. — Malcolm Forbes

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. — John Burroughs

L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card. — Geoff Mulgan

If you don’t love yourself who will? — Naval Ravikant

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. — Dale Carnegie

Your self-love must always be stronger than your desire to be loved by others. — Steven Bartlett

Every kind of love is love, but self-love is supreme among them. — African Proverbs

Flower Self Love Quotes

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Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us by another people then the right to life itself then the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers or to love our kind. — Roger Casem*nt

The more you love, the more you suffer. — Vincent Van Gogh

Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self. — Carl Jung

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure — Nathaniel Branden

The more you love, the more you crave. — Nicole Kidman

Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. — Bernie Siegel

Walk and touch peace every moment.Walk and touch happiness every moment.Each step brings a fresh breeze.Each step makes a flower bloom.Kiss the Earth with your feet.Bring the Earth your love and happiness.The Earth will be safewhen we feel safe in ourselves. — Nhat Hanh

In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. — Vincent Nichols

After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths. — Nirmala Srivastava

Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could. — Jack Canfield

Love Your Self Quotes

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being. — Hafez

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Khalil Gibran

Become one with eternity.Become part of your environment.Take off your clothes.Forget yourself. Make love.Self-destruction is the onlyway to peace. — Yayoi Kusama

Listen to the inner light;It will guide you.Listen to the inner Peace;It will feed you.Listen to the inner Love;It will transform you,It will divinise you,It will immortalise you. — Sri Chinmoy

Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves. — Andrew the Apostle

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way. — Lady Gaga

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. — Jack Kornfield

Never dull your shine for somebody else. — Tyra Banks

Love My Self Quotes

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My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones. — Paul Theroux

A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening. — Kenny Loggins

O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity. — St. Catherine of Siena

Hold a true friend with both your hands. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before. — Marvin Gaye

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. — Winston Churchill

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name. — Thomas Merton

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. — Hans Christian Andersen

Self Worth And Love Quotes

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You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. — Bindi Irwin

Most people love you for who you pretend to be. — Jim Morrison

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. — Sasha Azevedo

That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act... — Jim Morrison

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it. — Thaddeus Golas

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. — Deborah Day

Our success at friendship, business, sports, love--indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt--is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness. — Alan Loy McGinnis

Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it! — Gautama Buddha

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing. — Ram Dass

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. — Nathaniel Branden

Self Respect And Love Quotes

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To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina. — Caroline Myss

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage. — Thucydides

No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself. — Raymond Charles Barker

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. — Louise Hay

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads. — Henry David Thoreau

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off. — Robert Hand

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them. — Herbert H. Lehman

Toxic traits attract toxic people. If you don’t respect yourself, nobody will. If you don’t love yourself, you’ll be hard to love. Respect, compassion, and love. If you want to attract someone that will treat you like this, you have to start treating yourself like this first. — Steven Bartlett

Self Respect In Love Quotes

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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 — Margot Anand

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it. — Marcus Allen

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing. — Emma Goldman

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

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. — Axel Munthe

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends. — Aberjhani

You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming. — Marshall Sylver

Here's the thing, you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self but in a guy you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him. — Tracy McMillan

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. — Don Coppersmith

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be. — Cornel West

Self-love Quotes

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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman. — Max Lucado

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem. — Abraham Maslow

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. — Albert Einstein

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves. — Osho

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. — Mary, Queen of Scots

It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. — Francis Chan

If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love. — Muhammad Ali

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself. — Jaggi Vasudev

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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". — Charlie Chaplin

Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me. — Danielle Steel

The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird. — Laurens van der Post

Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa. — Karl A. Menninger

Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from. — Emmylou Harris

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors. — Sharon Olds

I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again. — Robert H. Schuller

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. — June Jordan

My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another. — Shakti Gawain

To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive. — Nathaniel Branden

Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the Universe. Self-love creates self-expression and allows us to be creative in deeply fulfilling ways. — Louise Hay

The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there.And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner. — Byron Katie

I have to do the work of self-love and affirmation, and say, "I am a woman, I am a person of color, I am the granddaughter of immigrants, I am also the descendant of slaves, I am a mother, I am an entrepreneur, I am an artist, and I'm joyful." And maybe in seeing my joy, you can finish your sentence with, "And I am joyful too." — Kerry Washington

I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. — Bahá'u'lláh

I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love. — Idina Menzel

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there. — Deborah Cox

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

Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed. — Leo Tolstoy

I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good. — Chris Evans

I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style. — Camila Alves

I love Twitter. It doesn't keep me from writing and I think it's a really convenient scapegoat when the truth is that the real issue is self-control. I am totally fine admitting i have none. I'm not going to blame Twitter for affecting my writing. And also, Twitter doesn't affect my writing. — Roxane Gay

I will not leave you, I cannot leave you, for you are My creation and My product, My daughter and My son, My purpose and My... Self. Call on Me, therefore, wherever and whenever you are separate from the peace that I am. I will be there. With Truth. And Light. And Love. — Neale Donald Walsch

Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same. — Nicholas Sparks

In Conclusion

In our fast-paced world, where criticism and self-doubt can easily seep in, we need these quotes more than ever. Reading and reflecting on self-love quotes is like nourishing your soul. It promotes self-confidence, illuminates your inner beauty, and even offers a sense of spiritual upliftment, akin to reading a self-love bible. It's a gentle yet powerful way of reinforcing positivity within you. So why not make these quotes a part of your daily routine? Let them guide you towards a journey of self-love and acceptance, ultimately leading to a happier, healthier you.

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