Self-love is an important aspect of our overall well-being and happiness. When we love and accept ourselves just as we are, we are able to better navigate through life’s challenges and setbacks and find joy and fulfillment in our daily lives.
Unfortunately, many of us struggle with self-love and self-acceptance, whether due to past experiences or negative self-perceptions, but it’s never too late to work on building your self-esteem, and incorporating self-love quotes into our daily lives can be a helpful and inspiring way to start.
That’s why we’ve compiled a list of uplifting and motivating quotes to help you cultivate a deeper sense of self-love and self-acceptance. Whether you’re looking for a daily dose of inspiration or a new personal mantra, these self-love quotes are sure to inspire and empower you on your journey towards self-love and self-acceptance. So, let’s embrace our unique qualities and imperfections, and learn to love and accept ourselves just as we are.
- “The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
- “Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
- “You are worthy of love and belonging, right now, exactly as you are.” – Brene Brown
- “Self-love is the source of all our other loves.” – Pierre Corneille
- “The best relationship you will ever have is the one you have with yourself.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
- “Self-love is the foundation for all healthy relationships.” – Unknown
- “Never ever doubt yourself or your capabilities. You are born to Win. You are born to be a Hero!” – Avijeet Das
- “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
- “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
- “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
- “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” – Sonya Friedman
- “Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown
- “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” – Wayne Dyer
- “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morely
- “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”– Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
- “Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
- “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morely
- “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
- “Everything worth having costs something, and the price of true love is self-knowledge.” – Multiple sources
- “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard M. Baruch
- “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
- “You can’t really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.” – Fred Rogers
- “Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” – Maryam Hasnaa
- “You have been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay
- “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”– Charles Bukowski.
- “My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.” – Shakti Gawain
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
- “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton
- “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticised anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown
- “Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.” – Ileana D’Cruz
- “Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth.” – Heart Evangelista
- “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself — what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.” – Warsan Shire
- “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
- “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
- “Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have the time to sit around and talk about you. What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to me is my opinion of myself.” – C. Joybell
- “True self-care is not bath salts and chocolate cake, it’s making the choice to build a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Brianna Wiest
- “Just do what works for you, because there will always be somebody who thinks differently.” – Michelle Obama
- “To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone.” – Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After
- “There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” – Hindu proverb
- “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
- “It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you’re not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.” – Emma Watson
- “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Ian Wallace
- “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
- “Self-confidence is the best outfit.” – Unknown
- “The real difficulty in self-love is combating the inner critic who goes against our own wishes by challenging our own beliefs. You know you’re worthy of love, but the critic keeps reminding you of the past pain that you can’t let go of.” – Anonymous
- “I think no matter what you look like, the key first of all is to be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to improve things you don’t like about yourself, then do it after you appreciate yourself.” – Adele
- “You deserve someone who makes you feel like the otherworldly creature that you are. Yourself.” – Amanda Lovelace
