Self-love is never easy, when we struggle with trying to accept our faults and imperfections, and when other people’s opinion matters instead of ours. That we tend to please other people just so we would feel that we belong and are loved. Or when we always try to nitpick ourselves over the simplest things.
But by doing so, we would only increase the emptiness in our hearts, that we tend to forget the real meaning behind self-love. In which some people think that self-love is by having a big ego. Which is not true. Instead, Self-love is prioritizing your own well-being and happiness.
It is where you prioritize your own needs and by not sacrificing your well-being just to please other people. By doing so, you are able to become emotionally healthy and free from pain. As you appreciate who you are, and where you don’t criticize and nitpick yourself.
Here are the 100 self-love quotes that will inspire you to love yourself and become the best version of yourself:
1. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren
2. “To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” – Denis Waitley
3. “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 Thurnman
4. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” -M. Scott Peck
5. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” – Bob Moawad
6. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”– Mark Twain
7. “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
8. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” —Carl Gustav Jung
9. “Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.” —Daphne Rose Kingma
10. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
11. “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
12. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” —Abraham Lincoln
14. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” —JoyBell C.
15. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” —Malcolm S. Forbes
16. “Our entire life… consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” —Jean Anouih
17. “Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” —Ram Dass
18. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” —Thich Nhat Hanh
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. “It’s not your job to like me… it’s mine!” —Byron Katie
21. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” —Buddha
22. “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. ” —Louise L. Hay
23. “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
24. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley
25. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown
26. “Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths it neutralizes when others think less of you.” – Rob Liano
27. “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
28. “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
29. “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.” – Mark Twain
30. “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
31. “No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.” – Edmond Mbiaka
32. “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.” – Deborah Day
33. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”– Helen Keller
34. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
– Louise L. Hay
35. “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
– Frederick Douglass
36. “We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.”
– Mary Dunbar
37. “Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?” – Brigham Young
38. “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
39. “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
40. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here.” – Venus Williams
41. “A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” – HARUKI MURAKAMI
42. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – CHARLES BUKOWSKI
43. “Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you, who you are.” – BEYONCE
44. “This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.” – Glennon Doyle
45. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey
46. “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”- Maxwell Maltz
47. “Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” – Diana, Princess of Wales
48. “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
49. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
50. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
51. “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
52. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” – Maya Angelou
53. “People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.” – Dan Pearce
54. “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
55. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” – Melanie Koulouris
56. “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” – Robert Hand
57. “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” – Yogi Bhajan
58. “People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.” – Wayne Dyer
59. “I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” – Kristen Neff
60. “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.” – T. Harv Eker
61.. “Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
– Jean Vanier
62. “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
63. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”– Roy T. Bennett
64. “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
65. “Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.”– Coco Chanel
66. “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
67. “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” – Sally Field
68. “Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one’s best.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick
69. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” —Walt Whitman
70. “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
71. “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” —William Shakespeare, Henry V.
72. “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
73. “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
74. “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” —William James
75. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James
76. “She lacks confidence she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.” —Anais Nin
77. “The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” —E. E. Cummings
78. Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.” —Anonymous
79. “Everything worth having costs something, and the price of true love is self-knowledge.” —Multiple Sources
80. “There is no sense in punishing your future for the mistakes of your past. Forgive yourself, grow from it, and then let it go.” – Melanie Koulouris
81. “Self love. It doesn’t mean that everyone will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It means that you won’t let them change the way you see yourself; nor will you stick around for them to destroy you.” – Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
82. “Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
83. “I am not looking to escape my darkness, I’m learning to love myself here.” – Rune Lazuli
84. “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” – Pema Chodron
85. Loving Yourself is the greatest evolution
86. “Demonstrate love by giving it, unconditionally, to yourself. And as you do, you will attract others into your life who will love you without conditions.” – Paul Ferrini
87. Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish. It makes you indestructible.
88. “When I accept myself just as I am, i am freed from the burden of needing you accept me.” – Dr. Steve Maraboli
89. “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” – Denis Waitley
90. “Confidence is the ability to feel beautiful, without needing someone to tell you.” – Mandy Hale
91. “There’s no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let others get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
92. One day I woke up and realised I was not made for anyone, I was made for me. I am my own.
93. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
94. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
95. “People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.” -Elizabeth Gaskell
96. “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay
97. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” – Michael J. Fox
98. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder
99. “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
100. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” – Sandra Bierig
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