Self-Love Quotes

"To love onself is the beginning of a life-long romance." ~Oscar Wilde

"Our first and last love is - self-love." ~Christian Bovee

"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers." ~Francois de la Rochefoucalud

"Do you want to meet the love of your life?  Look in the mirror."  ~Byron Katie

"It's not your job to like me -- it's mine." ~Byron Katie

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

"You can explore the Universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere." ~unknown

"If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor." ~Nicholas de Chamfort

"The price of hating other human beings is loving one's self less." ~unknown

"Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it."  ~unknown

"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except you." ~Rita Mae Brown

"He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude." ~Aristotle

"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others." ~Dag Hammarskjold

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

"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

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

"I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself." ~Mae West

"I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest.  Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round." ~Muhammad Ali

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.  That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with bastly superior talent." ~Sophia Loren

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire Universe, deserve your love and affection." ~Buddha

"Everybody is a genius.  But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that is is stupid." ~Albert Einstein

"Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." ~Veronica A. Shoffstall


"You must love yourself before you can love another.  By fully accepting yourself and being who you are, your simple presence has a positive impact."~Denna J. Shelton

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Self-Acceptance Quotes

"Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything.  You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets." ~Clark Moustakas

"You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you." ~Dr. Robert Anthony

"The greatest success, is successful self-acceptance." ~Ben Sweet

"We cannot change anything until we accept it.  Condemnation does not liberate it, it oppresses." ~Carl Jung

"Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves." ~Bonaro Overstreet

"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.  I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing." ~Michel de Montaigne

"Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt." ~Berthoki Auerbach

"Love your Self's self where it lives." ~Anne Sexton

"What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." ~Albert Einstein

"Accept your genius and say what you think." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

"He who seeks applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping." ~Oliver Goldsmith

"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight.  Never stop fighting." ~E.E. Cummings

"Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will." ~J.C.F. vonSchiller

"Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life." ~Ellen Sue Stern

"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself." ~Honore DeBalzae

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." ~Carl Jung

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."  ~Mark Twain

"I exist as I am; that is enough.  If no other in the world be aware, I sit content.  And if each and all be aware, I sit content." ~Walt Whitman

"It's not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own." ~Noel Coward

"Nobody can be exactly like me.  Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." ~Tallulah Bankhead

"The fruit of self-understanding is self-acceptance. The fruit of self-acceptance is self-love.  The fruit of self-love is love for the world.  The fruit of love for the world is service to the world.  The fruit of service to the world is peace." ~Russell Rowe

"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us." ~Virginia Satir

"If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor." ~Nicolas de Chantort

All aspects of yourself are serving your soul journey.  Yes, ALL!  Be kind and gentle to yourself.  The irony of self-acceptance is the parts that you dislike the most will have less prominence in your life. ~Denna J. Shelton

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