Self Love Series: 101 Loving Yourself Quotes
Loving yourself quotes are sayings to inspire you for practising greater self-love.
From brilliant poets to inspirational writers and the great sages of all time, each had espoused one and the same: love within yourself leads you to love for all. Self-love is the secret to living fully. Through healthy self-love, you lay the foundation to creating your best life!
(Love who you are. Love yourself through self acceptance, forgiveness and esteem. My collage illustrates Loving Yourself Quote #62 below.)
The following are 101 loving yourself quotes. I have also classified the quotes according to the sub-categories of self-love, where possible. Pick one each day to contemplate over its meaning. Enjoy!
Loving Yourself Quotes: Love from Within
1. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha
2. “There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit, and supplies passion to our lives.”
– Elisabeth Kubler Ross
3. “The love you seek is seeking you at this moment.”
– Deepak Chopra
4. “There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer….
No door that enough love will not open
No gulf that enough love will not bridge,
No wall that enough love will not throw down….
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble,
How great the mistake,
Sufficient realization of love will resolve it all.
If only you could love enough,
You would be the happiest and most powerful being in the universe.”
– Emmet Fox
5. “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, thirteenth century Sufi poet
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6. “Something inside you emerges….an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.”
– Eckhart Tolle
7. “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
8. “Dedicate yourself to Love. Decide to let Love be your intention, your purpose, and your point. And then let Love inspire you, support you and guide you in every other dedication you make thereafter.”
– Robert Holden
9. “No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.”
– Barbara de Angelis
10. “I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.”
– Dwight L Moody
11. “What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.”
– Marcus Annaeus Seneca
12. “Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
– Anthony Powell
13. “Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
– Veronica A. Shoffstall
14. “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
– Michel de Montaigne
15. “The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.”
– Ellen Goodman
16. “Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.”
– Jack Kornfield
17. “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
– Louise L. Hay.
18. “Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
19. “I am an artist of my own creation. I like myself.”
– Sondra Ray
Loving Yourself Quotes: Self-Love Miracles
20. “I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.”
– Louise Hay
21. “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.”
– Wayne Dyer
22. “Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.”
– Thaddeus Golas
23. “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
24. “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.”
– Sonya Friedman
25. “If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.”
– Louise L. Hay
26. “To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.”
– Anonymous
27. “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
– Oscar Wilde
28. “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
– Alexander Smith
29. “About all you can do in life is be who you are.”
– Rita Mae Brown
30. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
– Maya Angelou
31. “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.”
– Ken Keyes
32. “She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”
– Anais Nin
33. “I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.”
– Louis L Amour
34. “Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.”
– Berthold Auerbach
35. “I didn’t belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I’d known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.”
– Bette Midler
36. “Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.”
– Barbara Sher
37. Ultimately, love is self approval.
– Sondra Ray
Loving Yourself Quotes: Self Acceptance
38. “The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.”
– Ben Sweet
39.”If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz
40. “Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve.”
– Emmanuel
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41. “Resolve to be thyself … he who finds himself loses his misery!”
– Matthew Arnold
42. “We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people’s models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.”
– Shakti Gawain
43. “Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
– Jean Vanier
44. “Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.”
– Saint Francis de Sales
45. “I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?”
– Golden Hawn
46. “A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.”
– Axel Munthe
47. “Our entire life … consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.”
– Jean Anouih
48. “Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.”
– Michel de Montaigne
49. “I’m not OK, you’re not OK-and that’s OK.”
– William Sloane Coffin
50. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.”
– Sandra Bierig
51. “You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.”
– Martha Graham
52. “Oh, I’m so inadequate. And I love myself!”
– Meg Ryan
53. ““Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.”
– Author unknown
54. “The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”
– Paul Tillich
55. “Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.”
– David Grayson
56. “We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
– Roderick Thorp
57. “Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
58. “Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.”
– Bill Copeland
59. “Be content to seem what you really are.”
– Marcus Aurelius
60. “People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.”
– Sa’Di
61. “The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.”
– Mark Twain
62. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
63. “It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.”
– Billy Joel
64. “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
– William James
65. “How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.”
– Sue Atchley Ebaugh
Loving Yourself Quotes: Celebrate Who You Are
66. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
– Abraham Lincoln
67. “When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence, applaud yourself!”
– Rusty Berkus
68. “You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, “I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.”
– Mariah Carey
69. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
– Oprah Winfrey
70. “If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”
– Ralph Emerson.
71. “Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
72. “When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence, applaud yourself!”
– Rusty Berkus
Loving Yourself Quotes: Self-trust and Belief
73. “Our doubts are traitors and makes us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
– William Shakespeare
74. “Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.”
– Ellen Sue Stern
75. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
76. “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
78. “Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.”
– Author Unknown
79. “Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.”
– Michel de Montaigne
80. “Never dull your shine for somebody else.”
– Tyra Banks
81. “If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.”
– Nicholas de Chamfort
82. “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.”
– Sonya Friedman
83. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
84. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
– Johann von Goethe
85. “Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by the belief in your heart.”
– Robert Collier
86. “Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment – or unlearning – of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is…our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.”
– Marianne Williamson
87. “I’ve learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.”
– Sarah MchLachlan
88. Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.”
– Jane Roberts
89. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
– Edmund Hillary
90. “Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.”
– Mary Kay Ash
91. “Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.”
– Ellen Sue Stern
Loving Yourself Quotes: Self Esteem
92. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. “Your problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
– Ram Dass
94. “If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”
– Author Unknown
95. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
96. “When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
– African Proverb
97. “There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.”
– Nathaniel Branden
98. “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”
– Sally Field
99. “It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”
– Sally Kempton
100. “A gold medal is a nice thing – but if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.”
– From Cool Runnings
101. “Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.”
– Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Loving Yourself Quotes: Pick Your Favourite
I have listed 101 loving yourself quotes. Which is your favourite self-love saying and why?
Shine and Smile in Self-Love Always,
Evelyn Lim
P.S. Self Love Series
Today’s post is part of the series on Self Love that I am publishing on my site. Missed any of the earlier posts? Here are the links once again…
Self Love Series: Take a Self Love Quiz
Self Love Series: Say Yes to Loving Yourself
Self Love Stories: Lessons from the Heart
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Evelyn Reply:
May 12th, 2011 at 9:57 am
Big love to you too, Lance.
Have an awesome week!
xoxo,
Evelyn
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