Self-Love Quotes

These self-love quotes remind you that you are worthy, enough, and deserving of compassion.

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

— Buddha

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

— Oscar Wilde

"You are enough just as you are."

— Meghan Markle

"Talk to yourself like someone you love."

— Brene Brown

"Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself."

— Unknown

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do."

— Brene Brown

"You have been criticizing yourself for years and it has not worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

— Louise Hay

"Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have."

— Robert Holden

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

— Lucille Ball

"Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars."

— Max Ehrmann

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

— Christopher Germer

"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself."

— Steve Maraboli

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are worthy of the love you keep trying to give everyone else."

— Unknown

"How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you."

— Rupi Kaur

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

— Sophia Bush

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

— Pierre Corneille

"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time."

— M. Scott Peck

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward."

— Roy T. Bennett

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

— Rumi

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

— Carl Jung

"Put yourself at the top of your to-do list every single day."

— Unknown

"Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full."

— Unknown

"You do not need anyone's affection or approval in order to be good enough."

— Unknown

"The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself."

— Maya Angelou

"Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Mind. Body. Spirit."

— Unknown

"Loving yourself is not vanity. It is sanity."

— Katrina Mayer

"Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you."

— Unknown

"You deserve the love you keep trying to give everyone else."

— Unknown

"Self-love, self-respect, self-worth. There is a reason they all start with self. You cannot find them in anyone else."

— Unknown

"Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that cannot accept who you are."

— Turcois Ominek

"Do not sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there is nothing else you can give."

— Karl Lagerfeld

"Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself."

— Wayne Dyer

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

— Coco Chanel

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

— Serena Williams

"What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives have not happened yet."

— Anne Frank

"The most important relationship in your life is with yourself."

— Diane Von Furstenberg

"Be kind to yourself. You are doing the best you can."

— Unknown

"Self-care is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation."

— Audre Lorde

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."

— Maya Angelou

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