They say self-love comes from within, but sometimes one does need an external driving force to push forward. And what that driving force can be? Some amazing self-love quotes that can rejuvenate the love for oneself from the deepest depth of their heart. If you are looking for such a driving force in the form of a quote, or know someone who could use the motivation to love themselves, I have got you covered. Here are some of the best self-love quotes for anyone and everyone.
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Self-Love Quotes for Girls
- “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Maya Angelou
- “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
- “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
- “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen
- “You are your best thing.” – Toni Morrison
- “I am mine before I am ever anyone else's.” – Nayyirah Waheed
- “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia
Aesthetic Self-Love Quotes
- “I am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut.” – Rupi Kaur
- “The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.” – Rumi
- “There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen
- “I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.” – Zadie Smith
- “My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me.” – Attar of Nishapur
- “I paint flowers so they will not die.” – Frida Kahlo
- “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Gustav Jung
Happiness Self-Love Quotes
- “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
- “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk
- “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” – Walt Whitman
- “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
- “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski
- “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” – Lucille Ball
Self-Love Quotes for Boys
- “He who knows himself is enlightened.” – Lao Tzu
- “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” – Robert Hand
- “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Henry Stanley Haskins
- “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
- “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” – Nathaniel Branden
Short Self-Love Quotes
- “I am enough.” – Brené Brown
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
- “I exist as I am, that is enough.” – Walt Whitman
- “Self-love is the source of all our other loves.” – Pierre Corneille
- “I am my own muse.” – Frida Kahlo
- “Love yourself—it's a revolution.” – Tyra Banks
- “Own your own story.” – Neil Gaiman
- Short Positive Self-Love Quotes
- “You are enough just as you are.” – Megan Jayne Crabbe
- “I am a work in progress, and I'm okay with that.” – Anne Lamott
- “My imperfections make me beautiful.” – J.K. Rowling
- “I shine brightest when I'm me.” – Maya Angelou
- “I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.” – Ellen DeGeneres
- “Self-love is my superpower.” – Lizzo
- “I rise by lifting myself.” – Toni Morrison
Self-Love Smile Quotes
- “Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.” – Anthony J. D'Angelo
- “I smile because I have survived everything.” – Gloria Anzaldúa
- “A smile is the shortest distance between two people—and yourself.” – Victor Borge
- “Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.” – George Eliot
- “My smile is my signature of self-acceptance.” – Audre Lorde
- “I laugh at myself, and that's my freedom.” – Kurt Vonnegut
- “A smile costs nothing but gives much.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
Attitude Self-Love Quotes
- “I don't have to prove anything to anyone. I am me.” – Sonia Sotomayor
- “I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.” – Kurt Cobain
- “I am not afraid—I was born to do this.” – Joan of Arc
- “I'm not here to fit in; I'm here to stand out.” – James Baldwin
- “My attitude is mine to choose.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I'm too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.” – Nora Ephron
- “I'm my own competition—I'm better than I was yesterday.” – Simone Biles
Self-Love Quotes to Be Confident
- “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
- “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie
- “Confidence is not ‘they will like me.' Confidence is ‘I'll be fine if they don't.'” – Christina Grimmie
- “Believe you can and you're halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde
- “To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle.” – E.E. Cummings
Short Deep Self-Love Quotes
- “I am the love I've been seeking.” – Rupi Kaur
- “The wound is where the light enters you.” – Rumi
- “I am not what I think I am; I am what I do.” – Albert Camus
- “My worth is not negotiable.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “I am my own sanctuary.” – Anaïs Nin
- “To love oneself is to heal oneself.” – Louise Hay
- “I am whole in my own skin.” – Sylvia Plath
One-Word Self-Love Quotes
- “Enough.” – Maya Angelou
- “Fearless.” – Jane Austen
- “Unapologetic.” – Roxane Gay
- “Worthy.” – Toni Morrison
- “Bold.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Me.” – Walt Whitman
- “Free.” – Zora Neale Hurston
Inspirational Self-Love Quotes
- “Our first and last love is self-love.” – Christian Nestell Bovee
- “You must love yourself before you love another.” – George Sand
- “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” – Maya Angelou
- “Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” – Aberjhani
- “You were born an original. Don't die a copy.” – John Mason
- “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
- “Fall in love with taking care of yourself.” – Sade Andria Zabala
Self-Love Quotes for Healing and Growth
- “The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
- “You don't have to be perfect to be amazing.” – Hoda Kotb
- “Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love.” – Maza Dohta
- “What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.” – Seneca
- “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne
- “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou
Self-Love Quotes to Share with Your Partner
- “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky
- “Love yourself first, because that's who you'll be spending the rest of your life with.” – Lucille Ball
- “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other—and yourself.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “To love oneself is to make peace with the chaos within.” – Jeanette Winterson
- “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew—starting with me.” – William Shakespeare
