Top 100 Being Single Quotes That Will Motivate You

Many people prefer being single because it gives them the freedom to live their lives as they please without compromising with anyone. They can concentrate on achieving their goals and living a life they love.

Some people are not in the right mindset to be in a relationship. They may want to focus on themselves, find themselves, or just enjoy being single for now. Being single also gives them the opportunity to travel and explore the world without having any strings attached.

So what if you have just ended a long-term relationship? Singlehood is a time of healing and discovery, and this could be exactly what you need after your breakup! It is important not to rush into another relationship before you have healed from your previous one.

These are the top 100 most inspirational quotes about being single that will motivate you

“Single is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.” ― Mandy Hale

“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” ― Warsan Shire

“Being single means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve.” – Niall Horan

“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person.” —Oscar Wilde

“I love being single. It’s almost like being rich.” ― Sue Grafton

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” ― John Mayer

“Being single doesn’t necessarily mean you’re available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says, “Do Not Disturb” on your heart.” ― Wiz Khalifa

“Single is not a status. It is a word that best describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.    

“Discover why you’re important, then refuse to settle for anyone who doesn’t completely agree.” —Fisher Amelie

“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Single is not a status. It is a word that best describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.”

“You’re single not because you are not good enough for one, it’s that you’re too good for the wrong one.” – Chris Burkmenn


“Being single isn’t a time to be looking for love. Use that time to work on yourself and grow as an individual.” —Anonymous

“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.” – Warsan Shire

“Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you’re in.” ― Kelly Rowland

“To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.” ― Jeanne Moreau

“You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.” ― Jo Coudert

“Sometimes you have to stand alone to prove that you can still stand.” —Anonymous

“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

“I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.” ― Robin Williams

“I’m single for a reason waiting on the right one to come along.”

“Yeah, I’m single, but you’re gonna have to be amazing to change that.”

“You may not like being single but God needs your attention in this season. Let God prepare you before He gives you to someone”

“Being single is just a status, not destiny.”

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”

“Being single doesn’t mean that you know nothing about love.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” ― Oscar Wilde

“What is free time? I’m a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.” – Roma Downey

“I don’t really do that whole ‘single life’ thing. I’m kind of heads down and get things done.” – Ed Sheeran

“Solitude is the place of purification.” ― Martin Buber

“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” —Warsan Shire

“A broken relationship would make you feel more lonely than when you were single.”

“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.” —Mandy Hale

“He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.” ― Richard Avedond

“Being single doesn’t necessarily mean you’re available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says “Do Not Disturb” on your heart.” ― Wiz Khalifa

 “I’m not single. I’m not taken. I’m simply on reserve for the one who deserves my heart.” —Anonymous

“It’s high time we stopped thinking of families only in terms of couples, considering singles to be an anomaly (something must be wrong when you get into your thirties and aren’t married!) or undeveloped appendages which need to be nurtured and brought into maturity in marriage.” ― Harold J. Sala

“If you can’t take care of yourself, you can’t take care of someone else.” ― Sahithi Setikam

“I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.” ― Eric Dickerson

“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” —Walt Whitman

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” —Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.” ― Lao Tzu

“I don’t like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.” ― Delta Burke

“Being single doesn’t mean that you know nothing about love. Sometimes being solo is wiser than being in a false relationship.”

“I like being single, I’m always there when I need me.” ― Art Leo

“When you’re single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.” ― Sheena Easton

“Being single is pretty good. It’s a nice sense of irresponsibility.” – Michael Douglas

“I’ve been single for a while and I have to say, It’s going really well. Like…It’s working out. I think I’m the one.” – Emily Hunter

“Being single doesn’t make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own.” – Xavier Zayas

“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.” ― Thomas Hardy

Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.” ― Mandy Hale

“It takes a strong person to remain single in a world that is accustomed to settling with anything just to say they have something.” —Anonymous

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” ― Walt Whitman

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”

“Being single doesn’t necessarily mean you’re available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says, “Do Not Disturb” on your heart.” – Wiz Khalifa

As a self-described idealistic, I never consider myself as single. I like to say that I’m in between romances at the moment.” —Carl Henegan

“You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.” —Warsan Shire

“Being with no one is better than being with the wrong one. Sometimes those who fly solo have the strongest wings.” ― Nitya Prakash

“Why haven’t I got a husband and children? I never met a man I could marry.” ― Greta Garbo

“I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves.” —Shirley MacLaine

“I’ve been single for awhile and I have to say, it’s going very well. Like… it’s working out. I think I’m the one.” —Emily Heller

“Yes, it’s a virtue to grow and improve, but it’s important to remember that being single does not mean you’re flawed and in need of fixing. Your relationship or lack thereof has little to do with your worth.” ― Jennifer Taitz

“I don’t like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.” —Delta Burke

“Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love… but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.” —Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“I don’t need Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.” – Katy Perry

“Being single entitles you to not ask someone’s opinion before you do something to mess up your own room, your credit report or even your life.” ― Sayali Patil

“I think, therefore I’m single. ” ― Liz Winston

“Some people think it’s wrong, being single isn’t right. But you hurt the right person you’ll be wrong all your life.” ― Tyga

“If you’re single, focus on being a better you instead of looking for someone better than your ex. A better you will attract a better next.”

“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.” ― Eda Leshan

“Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.” – Mandy Hale

“Many of the most charming women I know possess at least one cat or dog. Maybe after getting used to an affectionate quadruped it is hard to settle for a man.” ― Luigina Sgarro

“Love yourself first, because that’s who you’ll spend the rest of your life with.” ― Luigina Sgarro

“As a body, everyone is single. As a soul, never.” ― Hermann Hesse

“I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.” – Eric Dickerson

“Single life is the training ground; it is imperative that you are training the right way.” ― Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

“He was a bachelor who wouldn’t allow any woman to tie him down. He said he preferred to be handcuffed instead.” ― Daytona

“I love being single. It’s almost like being rich.” – Sue Grafton

“The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.” ― Shirley MacLaine

“Being single is like a post-apocalyptic wasteland where it’s every man for himself.” ― Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother

“Maybe I’m just meant to be single. Whatever. Love is overrated.” ― Corri, Holliston

“If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.” ― Thomas Merton

“You’re single not because you are not good enough for one, it’s that you’re too good for the wrong one.” ― Chris Burkmenn

“I like being single — I’m always there when I need me.” —Art Leo

“I am happy every day, regardless of my relationship status, because I understand that my happiness doesn’t come from a relationship, it comes from within.” ― Gregg Michaelsen

“I’m not single. I’m not taken. I’m simple on reserve for the one who deserves my heart.”

“If you are not happy being single, you will never be happy in a relationship. Get your own life first, then share it.”

“I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it’s definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I’m sorted I’ve got good people around me.” – Olly Murs

“Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you’re pretty sexy and you’re taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.” —Carrie Bradshaw

“I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.” —Eric Dickerson

“Sometimes being solo is wiser than being in a false relationship.”

“Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won’t do that.” —Julie Delpy

“Being single doesn’t mean that you know nothing about love. Sometimes being solo is wiser than being in a false relationship.” ― unknown

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” —Oscar Wilde

“If you really are going to be a happy single, you have to stop treating being single as the annoying time that you pass between relationships and embrace it. Rather than focusing on what you lack, focus on what you have: You.” ― Natalie Lue

“A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.” ― Mandy Hale “I think, therefore I’m single.” —Liz Winston

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