74 Self-Love Quotes to Start Loving Yourself

Self-love is a necessary condition for living a pleasant and meaningful life. It affects your self-esteem, choices, relationships and overall enjoyment of life.

A strong sense of self-love may boost resilience, drive you to make wise choices and establish a sense of fulfillment and delight in your life.

The amount to which you love yourself has a big influence on your level of happiness and fulfillment in life.

We’ve prepared a compilation of popular self-love quotes to help you rediscover your own.

These quotes can serve as strong reminders of your inherent value and motivate you to cultivate a more loving relationship with yourself.


Best Self-Love Quotes

I’m going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life. Elsie de Wolfe.

I’m going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life. ~ Elsie de Wolfe.

I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. Maya Angelou

I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. ~ Maya Angelou

Self-love is the source of all our other loves. Pierre Corneille.

Self-love seems so often unrequited. Anthony Powell.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. Rumi

I’ve learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love. Khoudia Diop.

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Quotes about Self Love

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love. Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures. Gordon W. Allport

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. Thomas Aquinas

I just wanted to remind you, in case you needed to hear it, to be kind and loving to yourself, and talk to yourself like you would talk to your best friend. Camila Cabello.

It’s really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don’t relate to. Devin Townsend.

I was raised by a woman who was her true and authentic self. So I feel like it’s very important to put on for people who aren’t that confident or people who don’t realize the value in self-love. Megan Thee Stallion.

Happiness does not consist in self-love. Joseph Butler.

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.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. Anthony Powell.

Positive Self-Love Quotes

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

I think self-love isn’t some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life. Paloma Elsesser

You change the world by being yourself. Yoko Ono

Be brave enough to heal yourself even when it hurts. Bianca Sparacino

You are good enough to make whatever you want to achieve possible. You just need to find your talent and passion, then put a heck a lot of work into it. Ashley Graham

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

If you’re not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have. Tyrese Gibson

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. Voltaire

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

Self-love is not something that you get in one day or two days. It’s an ongoing process, and I go through it every day. Khoudia Diop

Great Self-Love Quotes

Self-love is for everyone and we all need it! Tess Holliday

We can climb mountains with self-love. Samira Wiley

We do not have the right to feel helpless. We must help ourselves. After destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives. Cheryl Strayed

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

You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are. Yogi Bhajan

The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that’s not going to happen overnight. Rumer Willis

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

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

Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself. Unknown

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love. Thomas Traherne

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. Walter Savage Landor

Beautiful Self-Love Quotes

Loving our hair and accepting others’ is a simple but powerful way to encourage self-love and bring people together while celebrating our uniqueness. Carolyn Aronson

If you don’t know where to find self-love, you’re going to spend the rest of your life trying to find it somewhere else. Jeannie Mai

Our first and last love is self-love. Christian Nestell Bovee

Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself. Angie Stone

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy – who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous. Geoff Mulgan

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

I’m really about body positivity and self-love, and I will definitely push the boundary with a pink midriff-baring top. Jonathan Van Ness

Self-love means something. I thought it was all a joke for a long time. It’s really important. Giving yourself a break is really important. Lindsay Shookus

As much as I preach self-love, it’s so hard for me to love myself. It’s really hard, and it’s just about building a good network of people and, in this case, a good network of artists. Trying to live your ideals as best as you can. Petra Collins

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

Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity. Katrina Mayer

Top Self-Love Quotes

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

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress – for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. William Hazlitt

My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me. Marley Dias

It’s challenging to find self-love when there’s confusion and you’re living in a world that’s seemingly very binary and black and white. Tommy Dorfman

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou

When you make a mistake, respond to yourself in a loving way rather than a self-shaming way. Ellie Holcomb

Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you. Amy Leigh Mercree

Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive. Brittany Burgunder

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves. Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you. Beyoncé

Lovely Self-Love Quotes

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

You are free, you are powerful, you are good, you are love, you have value you have a purpose. All is well. Abraham Hicks

Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will, too. Jennae Cecelia

Your biggest commitment must always be to yourself. Bridgett Devoue

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

You deserve someone who makes you feel like the otherworldly creature you are. Yourself. Amanda Lovelace

Once you embrace your value, talents, and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you. Rob Liano

If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self. Wayne Dyer

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

It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself. Diane Von Furstenberg

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. Oscar Wilde.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. Charles Bukowski.

No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love. Edmond Mbiaka.

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

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Haruki Murakami.



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