175 Love Yourself Quotes - Fuel for Your Self-Compassion Journey

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Famous Love Yourself Quotes

Love yourself just as you are. — Melody Beattie

Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself. — Betty Shabazz

Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out. — Jenn Proske

Love yourself first and everything falls into line. — Lucille Ball

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place. — Lucille Ball

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affectionBuddha

Love yourself like your life depends on it, because it does. - Anita Moorjani

Love yourself like your life depends on it, because it does. — Anita Moorjani

Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself - Haruki Murakami

Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself — Haruki Murakami

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things. — Leo Buscaglia

You only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself. — Naya Rivera

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball

Above all things, respect yourself. — Pythagoras

Go on and love yourself, cause everything's gonna be alright. — India.Arie

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. — Robert Morley

Short Love Yourself Quotes

  • At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself. — Lady Gaga
  • If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? — RuPaul
  • If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.' — Meghan Trainor
  • Loving yourself isn't vanity. it's sanity. — Katrina Mayer
  • Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. — Golda Meir
  • Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect. — Rhonda Byrne
  • It doesn`t matter if you have a valentine or not - just love yourself and be your own. — Kim Kardashian
  • To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. — Oscar Wilde
  • You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out. — Tina Turner
  • Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all — Whitney Houston

Top 10 Love Yourself Quotes

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself. — Maya Angelou

If you want to change the world, start with yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau

If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws. — T. D. Jakes

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being. - Hafez

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being. — Hafez

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. — Marva Collins

White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me. — John Henrik Clarke

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. — Groucho Marx

Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you. — Phife Dawg

Love Yourself Image Quotes

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts. - Rumi quote

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts. — Rumi

Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God. - Milton S. Hershey quote

Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God. — Milton S. Hershey

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. - Walt Disney quote

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm Forbes quote

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. — Malcolm Forbes

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence. - Carl Sandburg quote

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence. — Carl Sandburg

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. - Bob Marley quote

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. — Bob Marley

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world. - T. Harv Eker quote

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world. — T. Harv Eker

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. - Kurt Hahn quote

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. — Kurt Hahn

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. - Audrey Hepburn quote

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. — Audrey Hepburn

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. - Rumi quote

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. — Rumi

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire. - George Carlin quote

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire. — George Carlin

It's not your job to like me - it's mine - Byron Katie quote

It's not your job to like me - it's mine — Byron Katie

If I abuse myself daily, who can I love? - Big K.R.I.T. quote

If I abuse myself daily, who can I love? — Big K.R.I.T.

I'm too full to swallow my pride - The Weeknd quote

I'm too full to swallow my pride — The Weeknd

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness. - Stormie Omartian quote

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness. — Stormie Omartian

Just be yourself, there is no one better. - Taylor Swift quote

Just be yourself, there is no one better. — Taylor Swift

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself. - Gary Chapman quote

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself. — Gary Chapman

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change. - Taylor Swift quote

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change. — Taylor Swift

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something. - Andrew Wyeth quote

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something. — Andrew Wyeth

Love yourself quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

When You Love Yourself Quotes

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace. — Paramahansa Yogananda

People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done. — Tony Gaskins

When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside. — Joel Osteen

Love yourself quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ? — Kendrick Lamar

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. — Alan Cohen

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. — Deepak Chopra

Love yourself quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. — Robin Williams

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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

Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love. — Confucius

First Love Yourself Quotes

To love someone is not first of all to do things for them,but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: 'You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You can trust yourself.' — Jean Vanier

When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running. And a system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision. — James Clear

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. — Louise Hay

Love yourself quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.' — Maya Angelou

Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master. — Buddha

Love yourself quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection. — Buddha

Toxic traits attract toxic people. If you don’t respect yourself, nobody will. If you don’t love yourself, you’ll be hard to love. Respect, compassion, and love. If you want to attract someone that will treat you like this, you have to start treating yourself like this first. — Steven Bartlett

The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there. — Anne Graham Lotz

Many people say that you have to love yourself first before you can love others, but really, if you learn to love others, you will learn to love yourself. — Brianna Wiest

Always Love Yourself Quotes

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. — Oscar Wilde

People will always criticize. Stay upbeat and love yourself! There's nothing wrong with being different. — Krystal

We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is. — Lil B

Love yourself quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. — Leo Buscaglia

Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. — Jesse Owens

Love yourself quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it. — Sayings

You always feel better when you sing. Music touches people's hearts. You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity, it just moves you and it will let you cry. It's worth it doing a show and when you touch a crowd and move yourself at the same — Jewel

I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don’t love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the best version of you. — Kimora Lee Simmons

O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity. — St. Catherine of Siena

If You Don't Love Yourself Quotes

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others. — Dalai Lama

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will? — Jon Bon Jovi

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

Love yourself quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

Yes, I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]

If you don’t love yourself who will? — Naval Ravikant

Get better at whatever you’re doing. So what if you suck at it now. Everybody sucks at everything when they start. But if you love it, and don’t lie to yourself, then get better at it. — Joe Rogan

Love yourself quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Love is a learned behavior. If you don't learn how to love yourself someone will teach you how to hate yourself. — Tony Gaskins

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. — Peter Shaffer

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I'm down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.' — Meghan Trainor

It doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Inspirational Love Yourself Quotes

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. — Jorge Luis Borges

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person. — Gerard Way

Love yourself quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? — Charles Bukowski

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself. — Deepak Chopra

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius

Love yourself quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are — Kurt Cobain

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being. — St. Catherine of Siena

Don't Forget To Love Yourself Quotes

Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally. — Hannah Bronfman

Don't forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe. — Meera

Don't forget to love yourself. — Soren Kierkegaard

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. — Ray Bradbury

And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself. — Fynn

Only Love Yourself Quotes

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life. — Pablo Neruda

Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace. — Yayoi Kusama

You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. — Oprah Winfrey

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. - Josh Billings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. — Josh Billings

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky

Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results. — Jacque Fresco

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. — Fred Rogers

This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us. — Elisabeth Elliot

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. — Parker J. Palmer

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. - Buddha

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. — Buddha

Just Love Yourself Quotes

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it. — Adyashanti

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun. — Byron Katie

I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark. — Andrea Gibson

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. — Nhat Hanh

Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. — Bill Hicks

I just want people to feel like they can achieve something great in their lives. We all go through rough times, but love is the antidote. You've got to dream and just believe in yourself. And if you believe, you will achieve it. — Common

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself. - Frank Ocean

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself. — Frank Ocean

If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso. — Kanye West

Learn To Love Yourself Quotes

I hope you learn to love yourself for who you are and what you look like, and how you were born to be, because you are perfect in your own way. — Tyler Oakley

Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change. — Anita Moorjani

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man. — Pablo Casals

We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself. — Krishna Das

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. - Marilyn Monroe

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe

You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better. — Leon Brown

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself. — Kelly Brook

If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them. — Paul Orfalea

When you have children, you learn to love something more than you love yourself, and you can talk about that all day long, but you have never had that feeling until you’ve had a child. — Naval Ravikant

Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first. — Kendrick Lamar

Love Yourself More Quotes

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. — Baruch Spinoza

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? — Walt Whitman

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. — Buddha

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself. — Bill Murray

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up. — Jill Scott

You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. — Gillian Anderson

Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life. — Ellen Stern

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time — Hannah Arendt

What is your real work? Is it that which pays the bills or is it your art? I think your real work is healing. Whatever helps you become more loving in this lifetime. Whatever helps you forgive yourself, embrace yourself, meet yourself, and free yourself in this lifetime. — Tama J. Kieves

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness. — Mother Teresa

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More Love Yourself Quotes

If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. — Malcolm X

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again. — Bob Marley

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me. — Francis Chan

In Conclusion

Just imagine how much more fulfilling life could be if we put ourselves first, not in a selfish way, but in a way that ensures our well-being. When you visit Pinterest, you'll find a treasure trove of love yourself first quotes that serve as a daily dose of self-love and inspiration. These quotes can be a beacon of light on gloomy days, reminding you of your inherent worth and potential. Loving yourself is the first step to a happier, healthier life. So why not let these love yourself quotes guide you on your journey? After all, isn't it time you started treating yourself with the same kindness you extend to others?

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