50 Self Love Quotes To Help You Love Yourself And Stay Positive

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They say the best way to love someone else is by loving yourself first. But, loving yourself isnโt always about preparing to love someone else; itโs just because you are the only one who understands yourself better than anyone.
By loving yourself, youโre putting yourself first before anything else. This approach prevents you from being easily hurt or manipulated by other people because you know what you want and deserve in life. Self-love also builds your self-esteem, giving you much-needed confidence in everything you do. Also, by loving yourself, you become even more loveable.
For that reason, we have compiled 50 of the best self love quotes to inspire you. We hope that these quotes on self-love will change your perspective about love and convince you to appreciate yourself even more.
Letโs take a look!
Self Love Quotes
โHow you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.โ
Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
โMake yourself a priority once in a while. It is not selfish. Itโs necessary.โ
Anonymous
โWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.โ
Ralph Waldo
โYou are free, you are powerful, you are good, you are love, you have value, you have a purpose. All is well.โ
Abraham Hicks
โTo accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.โ
Sandra Bierig, Time for Joy
โLove others to make them feel better and so that you see yourself in the mirrors of their eyes.โ
Debasish MridhaEmerson
โYou are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.โ
Melissa Etheridge
โLove yourself, and the rest will follow.โ
Anonymous
โSomewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you.โ
Germany Kent
โTo love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.โ โOscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
โYour self-worth is determined by you. You donโt have to depend on someone telling you who you are.โ
Beyoncรฉ
โIf you have the ability to love, love yourself first.โ
Allen Klein
โBe about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.โ
Cheryl Strayed
โBe gentle with yourself. You are doing the best you can.โ
Paulo Coelho
โIโve learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self love.โ
Khoudia Diop
โYou are a true success if you can trust yourself, love yourself, and be yourself.โ
Debasish Mridha
โOwning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that weโll ever do.โ
Brenรฉ Brown
โWho looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.โ
Carl Gustav Jung
โJust do what works for you because there will always be somebody who thinks differently.โ
Michelle Obama
โHow you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.โ
โYou can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself.โ
Teresa Collins, Live Live in ALL CAPS
โIโm going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life.โ
Elsie de Wolfe
โLove who you are. Get excited about who you are becoming.โ
Anonymous
โBecause one believes in oneself, one doesnโt try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesnโt need othersโ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.โ
Lao Tzu
โNever doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.โ
Hillary Clinton
โWe have to care about our bodies and what we put in them. The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself.โ
Beyoncรฉ, Elle Magazine
โLife is tough, my darling, but so are you.โ
Stephanie Bennett Henry
โLoving yourself isnโt vanity. Itโs sanity.โ
Anonymous
โKeep watering yourself. Youโre growing.โ
E.Russell
โYour relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.โ
โKeep taking time for yourself until youโre you again.โ
Lalah Delia
โLove yourself and dream bigger.โ
Teresa Collins, Live Live in ALL CAPS
โThe only person who can pull me down is myself, and Iโm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.โ
C. JoyBell C.
โYou are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and loved more than youโll ever know.โ
A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh Library
โEncourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are. You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone.โ
Maya Angelou
โYouโre always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.โ
Diane von Furstenberg
โFind the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.โ
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
โSelf respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.โ
Rob Liano
โAccept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.โ
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
โLoving ourselves works miracles in our lives.โ
โLighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.โ
Deborah Day
โThe use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the self, love creates health.โ
Deepak Chopra
โDo you love yourself enough to be what you love yourself enough to want?โ
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
โEvery small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.โ
Alice Walker
โNever give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.โ
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
โMy willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.โ
Shakti Gawain, The Shakti Gawain Essentials
โLive life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.โ
Matt Cameron
โBe your own reason to smile.โ
Anonymous
โMake someone smile every day. But donโt forget you are someone too.โ
Anonymous
โSelf love is the biggest middle finger of all time.โ
As youโve learned from these self-love quotes, thereโs so much to gain when you love yourself. Youโll be more confident in yourself, have a better perspective of life, and as a result, youโll be in a better position to love someone else with the same energy or even more. Bottom line, before you start thinking about loving someone, remember that you are someone too!
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