83 Self-Love Quotes to Boost Confidence and Happiness
Loving yourself is the foundation for happiness, confidence, and growth.
That’s why we’ve gathered all the best self-love quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for inspiring and empowering sayings to remind you of your worth, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Top 10 Self-Love Quotes
“Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.”—Les Brown
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.”—Katrina Mayer
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”—Louise Hay
“If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?”—Meghan Markle
“If there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.”—Beyoncé
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”—Robert Morely
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”—Oscar Wilde
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”—Carl Gustav Jung
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”—Charles Bukowski
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”—Mark Twain
Short Self-Love Quotes
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”—Rumi
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”—André Gide
“Be the love you never received.”—Rune Lazuli
“Treat yourself like someone you love.”―Glennon Doyle
“Our first and last love is self-love.”—Christian Nestell Bovee
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”—Confucius
“Talk to yourself like someone you love.”—Brené Brown
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”—Dolly Parton
“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”—Tina Fey
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”—Stephen Chbosky
“Gonna love myself. No, I don’t need anybody else.”—Hailee Steinfeld
“Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.”—Lalah Delia
“Keep watering yourself. You’re growing.”—E. Russell
“You change the world by being yourself.”—Yoko Ono
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”—Walt Whitman
“The universe took its time on you.”—Rupi Kaur
“Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.”—Queen Latifah
“All love begins with the love within.”—Vironika Tugaleva
“Beauty comes from a life well lived.”—Jennifer Garner
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”—Oprah Winfrey
“All lights turned off can be turned on.”—Noah Kahan
“Plant hope in your heart’s wounds.”—Alexandra Vasiliu
“If you wish to be loved, love.”—Hecaton of Rhodes
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”—Michael Altshuler
“Every exit is an entrance to someplace else.”—Patti LaBelle
“Love. Laugh. And live it up!”—Christie Brinkley
“Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.”—Maryam Hasnaa
“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”—C. JoyBell C.
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”—Eleanor Roosevelt
“Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.”—Beyoncé
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”—Rupi Kaur
“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”—Warsan Shire
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”—Madonna
“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”—Deborah Day
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”—Sophia Loren
“Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.”—Tyra Banks
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”—Sally Field
Inspirational Self-Love Quotes for Instagram
“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
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”―Shannon L. Alder
“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”―Jennifer Elisabeth
“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”―Eartha Kitt
“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.”—Anna Taylor
“Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with the path of deep healing. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion, and respect to your own journey.”—S. McNutt
“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
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”—Haruki Murakami
“No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.”—Edmond Mbiaka
“Sometimes your soulmate is yourself. Sometimes you have to be the love of your life until you discover that type of love in someone else.”—r.h. Sin
“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”—Louise L. Hay
“I just wanted to remind you, in case you needed to hear it, to be kind and loving to yourself, and talk to yourself like you would talk to your best friend.”—Camila Cabello
“Put yourself first. Self-love is not selfish at all. It means that you’re taking care of yourself, and like my mom reinforced to me, to make sure that I was safe and that I was healthy.”—Laurie Hernandez
“Self love—it doesn’t mean that everyone will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It means that you won’t let them change the way you see yourself; nor will you stick around for them to destroy you.”—Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
“It is interesting how often we can’t see all the ways in which we are being strong.”—Lena Dunham
“Self love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.”―Beau Taplin
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”—Buddha
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”―Sylvia Plath
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.”—Rumi
“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”—Brené Brown
“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.”—Beyoncé
“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”—George R.R. Martin
“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.”—E.E. Cummings
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”—George Bernard Shaw
“This 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
“If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.”—Anne Hathaway
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”—Ruth Bader Ginsberg
“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”—Anaïs Nin
“There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship.”—Nayyirah Waheed
“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”—M. Scott Peck
“I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”—Maya Angelou
“When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.”—Solange Knowles
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”—William Shakespeare
“For me, self-love is like, ‘Am I sleeping enough? Eating well?’ Not: ‘Am I eating well to be able to fit into my skinny jeans?’ But: ‘Am I eating well to be healthy and strong?’ And to acknowledge the good, because there is always a lot of good.”—Kerry Washington
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”—Marcus Garvey
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”—Carl Gustav Jung
