Top 100 Self-Love Quotes of All Time

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Self love.

Indulge in the beauty of self-compassion through our compilation of the top 100 "Self-Love Quotes" of all time. These quotes illuminate the path to embracing oneself with all flaws and virtues. Join us in celebrating the journey of self-discovery and acceptance as we explore the wisdom of self-love from diverse perspectives.


"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
"How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you."
"You deserve someone who makes you feel like the otherworldly creature you are. Yourself."
"Treat her like you never want to lose her."
"Be so completely yourself that everyone else feels safe to be themselves, too."
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"Gonna love myself. No, I don't need anybody else."
"You are enough. A thousand times enough."
"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do."
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
"Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself."
"No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love."
"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself."
"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness."
"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."
"They will try to make you unhappy, don't let them. They will try to tell you you're not free, don't listen."
"People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer."
"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."
"Keep taking time for yourself until you're you again."
"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."
"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."
"Be enough for yourself first. The rest of the world can wait."
"In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you."
"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first."
"Keep watering yourself. You're growing."
"When things change inside you, things change around you."
"The things that make me different are the things that make me."
"A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else."
"Be single and save yourself for a relationship that motivates you to become the best version of yourself. Be single until you find a love that resembles the type of love you've been fighting for."
"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others."
"Plant hope in your heart's wounds."
"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
"You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are."
"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."
"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."
"Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it."
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
"Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have."
"You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company."
"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."
"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here."
"You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first."
"Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time."
"You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself."
"Learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn to admire your beauty without finding fault. Learn to love yourself without the love of others."
"Sometimes your soulmate is yourself. Sometimes you have to be the love of your life until you discover that type of love in someone else."
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
"One day I woke up and realized I was not made for anyone. I was made for me. I am my own."
"You really have to love yourself to get anything in this world done."
"My heart is beating and I’m breathing and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that."
"Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with the path of deep healing. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion, and respect to your own journey."
"You are free, you are powerful, you are good, you are love, you have value you have a purpose. All is well."
"Talk to yourself like someone you love."
"Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will, too."
"Love yourself when you're tired. Love yourself when you're weak. Love yourself when you're confused. Love yourself when you're broken. Love yourself when you're restored."
"I am what I am. I can't help myself and if you don't like it get with somebody else."
"Your biggest commitment must always be to yourself."
"No one can rescue me. I know because I've already tried to get them to do it. It doesn't work. This is all on me."
"Loving yourself isn't vanity; it's sanity."
"In stressful times, it's okay to not be perfect. Cut yourself some slack. Because right now, you might not be your best self, but you are growing and you are trying your best. And that is good enough."
"Don’t fall into the trap of sacrificing your self-esteem for affection and acceptance."
"The same light you see in others is shining within you, too."
"When you feel your worst is when you need to love yourself more."
"Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself."
"One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself."
"A lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves."
"No one is you and that is your superpower."
"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."
"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."
"Feel the fact that you are enough."
"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come."
"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."
"I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it If you don't ask for something, you're not going to get it."
"Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself."
"Make yourself a priority."
"Self-care is giving the world the best you instead of what's left of you."
"If there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself."
"Self-care is how you take your power back."
"Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself."
"You owe it to yourself to become everything you've ever dreamed of being."
"I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself."
"You change the world by being yourself."
"Trust the next chapter because you are the author."
"It's you versus you."
"Be brave enough to heal yourself even when it hurts."
"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."
"Until I'm ready, let me be. I have to heal myself."
"I didn’t feel sad or happy. I didn’t feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I’d done wrong, in getting myself here, I’d done right."
"Make peace with your broken pieces."
"Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway."
"When life puts you in touchy situations, don't say, 'Why me?' Just say, 'Try me.'"
"Heal yourself first. The rest will come later."
"Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that."
"She never needed to be saved. She only wanted to be loved the correct way. She wasn't looking for a hero. All she wanted was someone she could trust outside of herself."
"I woke up like this. Flawless."
"I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."
"I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die."
"I always feel confident. I never allow myself to not feel confident."
"Love is the absence of judgment."