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Life becomes difficult without self-love and more difficult when you think so low of yourself that you can’t stand the person you see every day in the mirror. It has happened to all of us at one point or another after something you did wrong or something you should have done but didn’t.
We all need self-love in a decent dose. To help you with that, I’ve compiled you a list of the 70 best quotes you can ever read on self-love. Keep them close to you, and refer to them whenever you need to.
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.” – Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- “Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.” – Tyra Banks
- “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “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
- “It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.” — Voltaire
- “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller
- “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
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
- “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary
- “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “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.” – Margot Anand
- “I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?” – Shailene Woodley
- “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp
- “You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.” – Ram Dass
- “Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.” – Thaddeus Golas
- “A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can’t do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.” – Delilah
- “Self-love is the source of all our other loves.” — Pierre Corneille
- “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
- “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
- “Our first and last love is self-love.” – Christian Nestell Bovee
- “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay
- “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” – Sandra Bierig
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.” — Angie Stone
- “Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.” — Gordon W. Allport
- “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
- “Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.” — Solange Knowles
- “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” – Robert Hand
- “If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.” — Bell Hooks
- “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
- “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
- “Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” – Jean Vanier
- “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
- “We can climb mountains with self-love.” — Samira Wiley
- “Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.” – Gary Zukav
- “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” – Ken Keyes Jr.
- “Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.” — Thomas Traherne
- “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” – Yogi Bhajan
- “We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality, we suffer from self-love.” — Walter Savage Landor
- “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance” – Oscar Wilde
- “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” – Maxwell Maltz
- “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
- “If you’re not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.” — Tyrese Gibson
- “It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine.” – Byron Katie
- “To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” – Denis Waitley
- “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” — Diane Von Furstenberg
- “The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.” — Joseph Butler
- “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
- “Self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. — Voltaire
- “Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.” — Jose Bergamin
- “Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.” – Ellen Sue Stern
- “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.” – Emily Levine
- “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
- “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
- “Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
- “A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy – who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.” — Geoff Mulgan
- “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Gustav Jung
- “The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” – E. E. Cummings
- “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
- “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
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
- “Be who you are, not what the world wants you to be.” – Coco Chanel
- “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
- “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
- “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
- “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
- “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 C.
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