106 Self-love Quotes to Inspire and Empower You

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”  – Buddha

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg 

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

“Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.” – Golda Poretsky

“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 McMilllen

“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

“I come across too much material on “how to make a man want you,” “how to make a man commit,” “how to make a man finally pop the question,” “how to make a man take you seriously,” “how to get into a man’s emotions.” And I laugh. My dear fellow women, enough! Do not busy yourselves with such things! Instead, fall in love with yourself!” – C. JoyBell C

“You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.” – Ram Dass

“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.”  – Robert Collier

“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”  – Madonna

“The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it.” – Jerry Gillies

“It’s not your job to like me…it’s MINE!” – Byron Katie

“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.” – Nathaniel Branden

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.” – Orison Swett Marden

“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.” – Christopher Germer

“Listen to your heart above all other voices.” – Marta Kagan

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” – Maya Angelou

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland

“We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals. Instead, try on the point of view of a mentor or good friend who believes in you, wants the best for your, and will encourage you when you feel discouraged.”  – Kelly McGonigal

“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.” – Lou Holtz

“People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.”  – Sanaya Roman

“Self-trust is the first secret of success.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli

“The most important opinion you have is the one you have of yourself, and the most significant things you say all day are those things you say to yourself.” – Unknown Author

“There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?” – C. JoyBell C

“When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives.”-  Kristin Neff

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Accept yourself. Love yourself as you are. Your finest work, your best movements, your joy, peace, and healing comes when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self-love. Roll in it. Bask in it as you would sunshine.” – Melodie Beattie

“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

“In your own life it’s important to know how spectacular you are.” – Steve Maraboli

“Someone else’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” – Les Brown

“Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. “ – Stephen Levine

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” – Anna Freud

“If I am not for myself, who will be?” – Pirke Avoth

“People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.” – Sanaya Roman

“The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search.” – Dr. Nathaniel Branden

“You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your “problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.” – Golda Poretsky

“You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.” – Steve Maraboli

“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” – Sally Field

“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

“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” – Dr. Sonya Friedman

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” – Aldous Leonard Huxley

“The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.” – C. JoyBell C

“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” – John Steinbeck

“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” – Mary Kay Ash

“Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.” -Steve Maraboli

“So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.” – Alan Wilson Watts

“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalyn Smith Carter

“Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you’re still here, you’re still capable, powerful, you’re not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You’re still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose.” – Steve Maraboli

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter Mcintyre

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”  –  Anna Quindlen

“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.” – Roderick Thorp

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”- W.C. Fields

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“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

“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.” – Buckminster Fuller

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” – Unknown

“Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners”  – William Shakespeare

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.” – Mark Twain

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton

“Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.” – Steve Maraboli

“Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.” – Coco J. Ginger

“Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.” – Unknown

“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.” – Henry David Thoreau

“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

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”  – Buddha

“The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Unknown

“In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel “burnout” setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.” – Dalai Lama

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Marianne Williamson

“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.”  – Benjamin Franklin

“Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.”  – Gloria Gaynor

“Your breathing is your greatest friend. Return to it in all your troubles and you will find comfort and guidance.” – Unknown

“To trust one’s mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.” – Nathaniel Branden

“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.” – Brian Andreas

“The goal is to learn to be nurturing with yourself so you can feel free.” – Deborah Day

“Too many people overvalue what they are not, and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm Forbes

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

“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.”- Thaddeus Golas

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou

“One of the most significant characteristics of healthy esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others”. – Nathaniel Branden

“I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.” – Louise Hay

“The most important key to the permanent enhancement of esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk”. – Dennis Waitley

“The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.” – Ben Sweet

“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

“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise L. Hay

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” – Walt Whitman

“Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.” – Robert Brault

“To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don’t have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.”  – Jim Rohn

“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

“Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.” – Wayne Dyer

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

“Persons of high self esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.” – Nathaniel Branden

“If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” – Barbara De Angelis

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not ‘modesty’. It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism’. It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.” – Bobbe Sommer

“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

“Tell me how a person judges his or her self esteem and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence – and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself – your self-esteem – is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.” – Nathaniel Branden

“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” – Ken Keyes

“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller

“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” – Dr. Seuss

“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.” – Rumi, thirteenth century Sufi poet

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Do you love yourself enough to be what you love yourself enough to want?” – Steve Maraboli

“A deep love resides inside each of us. This love is independent of the desires, thoughts, and opinions, good or bad, which are readily offered to us. It is a love that is gentle and kind, accepting and nonjudgmental, playful and spontaneous, courageous and curious. It is always encouraging and always evolving. This love can be discovered only through turning off the noise around us, coming to ourselves in silence, meditation, and prayer. If we listen carefully we will hear the murmurs of our inner voice tell yearnings of our truest selves. What is available to us is a profound understanding, appreciation, and full acceptance of self, all of the good and all of the bad. Only when we truly know that we are able to tap into this part of ourselves can we begin to love others fully. Love for others is the manifestation of love for self. We cannot love another more than we love ourselves. Life is a mirror. If you want to know what love for yourself looks like, look at your love for others. If you want to know what your love for others look like, look at your love for self. When you love yourself this way, you love God this way. This relationship is the divine love triangle; self, God, and others in any order.” – Marlon Hartley Lindsay

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“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 if 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 worrying 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 “FULFILLMENT”.

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 stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!” – Charlie Chaplin

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