Love yourself. It’s a relatively simple concept but one that can be challenging to execute in practice.
We can spend so much time trying to find love from others that we’re missing out on the love that we have for ourselves. Love is not something you see, it’s something you give, and then you get back what you put out. Of course, it’s hard to know when your time is up, but don’t be afraid to let go of people and relationships if they’re not healthy for you.
Self-love is important because it brings about peace and happiness. When you love yourself, you will have a lot of energy to love others.
Here is the list of 150+ inspirational love yourself quotes to become mentally stronger
“Be very very very gentle with yourself. The world is very very very hard on you.”― Srividya Srinivasan
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”― Steve Maraboli
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”― George Eliot
“Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.” – Byron Katie
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” ― Robert Hand
“Love yourself. Love the world. There is no power stronger than love.” ― Deepak Chopra
“Just be, and enjoy being.” ― Eckhart Tolle
The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.” ― Osho
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone.” ― Maya Angelou
“You can’t really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.” ― Fred Rogers
“We must fall in love with ourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.” ― Mae West
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” ― Anonymous
“F.L.Y. First Love Yourself. Others will come next.” ― Anonymous
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” ― M. Scott Peck,
“Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.” – Zoe Kravitz
“Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.” ― Gillian
“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” ― Diane Von Furstenberg
“Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – L. Hay
“The relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” ― Jane Travis
“Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” ― Beyoncé
“The moment you know yourself you have known the most precious thing in existence.” ― Osho
“I’m learning to love myself. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” ― Anonymous
“Love yourself first, because that’s who you’ll be spending the rest of your life with.” ― Anonymous
“Loving yourself starts with liking yourself, which starts with respecting yourself, which starts with thinking of yourself in positive ways.” ― Jerry Corsten
“Work on being in love with the person in the mirror who has been through so much but is till standing.” ― Anonymous
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Andre Gide
“Love yourself. Enough to take the actions required for your happiness. Enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past. Enough to set a high standard for relationships. Enough to feed your mind and body in a healthy manner. Enough to forgive yourself. Enough to move on.” – Steve Maraboli
“The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you’ll tolerate.” ― Anonymous
“What if you simply devoted this year to loving yourself more?” ― Anonymous
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you won’t do anything with it.” ― M. Scott Peck
“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.” ― Michel de Montaigne
“You’re certainly somebody that people can love.” ― Fred Rogers
“All you really need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.” ― Eckhart Tolle
“Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Mind. Body. Spirit.” ― Anonymous
“Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again.” ― Osho
“Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” ― Osho
“You start to live the moment you stop competing with others.” ― Maxime Lagacé
“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” ― Tina Fey
“The fact that someone else loves you doesn’t rescue you from the project of loving yourself.” ― Sahaj Kohl
“We must fall in love with yourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.” – Mae West
“Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish – it makes you indestructible.” ― infl4ted
“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
“Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.” ― Anonymous
“Have unshakable faith in yourself to become everything you want to be.” ― Anonymous
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” ― Louise L. Hay
“If you don’t love yourself, nobody else is going to love you.” ― Anonymous
“Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude.” ― Laura Doyle
“You, yourself, as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ― Buddha
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” ― Charles Bukowski
“Demonstrate love by giving it, unconditionally, to yourself. And as you do, you will attract others into your life who will love you without conditions.” ― Anonymous
“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
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” – Maxwell Maltz
“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
“To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” – Denis Waitley
Love Yourself Quotes
“Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time.” ― Anonymous
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” ― Lao Tzu
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” ― M. Scott Peck
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” ― Harvey Fierstein
“When you make a mistake, respond to yourself in a loving way rather than a self-shaming way.” ― Ellie Holcomb
“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
Popular Love Yourself Quotes
“All people deserve your kindness, but none more so than you.” ― Justin Kan
“If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others.” ― Osho
“If you want to be faithful to someone or something, start by being faithful to yourself.” ― Paulo Coelho
“Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.” – Nikki Rowe
“Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.”― Stephanie Lahart
“If you live to please others, everyone will love you except yourself.” ― Paulo Coelho
“Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love”. ― Eckhart Tolle
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.” ― Pema Chödrön
“You need time to think, time to dream, time to talk and time to do nothing at all.” ― Brooke McAlary
“No one knows how you treat yourself, but it’s the most important relationship you have.” ― Bill Masur
“Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.” ― Tara Stiles
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ― Buddha
“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”
“Love yourself and dream bigger.”
“To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” – Sandra Bierig
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” ― Haruki Murakami
“I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.” ― Maya Angelou
“If I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?” ― Kamal Ravikant
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”― Ram Dass
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley
“You have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. Because it’s only when we love ourselves that we feel worthy of someone else’s love.” ― Alyssa B. Sheinmel
“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” – Alan Cohen
“Love others to make them feel better and so that you see yourself in the mirrors of their eyes.” ― Debasish Mridha
“We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.” – Mary Dunbar
“Sometimes the noise of life can be just too much. If you need to escape, love yourself enough to know when you need a real time out.” ― Karen A. Baquiran
“There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“You are morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued.” ― Jordan Peterson
“Helping yourself, you help the world. You are in the world – you are the world. You are not different from the world, nor is the world different from you.” ― Sri Ramana Maharshi
“Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world.” ― Haemin Sunim
“You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.”― jane Roberts
“When you establish peace, when you establish love, when you establish kindness here [inside], you cannot act any other way to the outside world.”― Mimi Ikonn
“You can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself.” ― Teresa Collins
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.” – Edmond Mbiaka
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” – William James
“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.” – Wayne Dyer
“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.” ― Suzy Kassem
“Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
“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
“Others can’t always define your true identity. They see what they ‘want’ to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it’s good.” ― Chinonye J. Chidolue
“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
“Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.” ― Suzy Kassem
“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.
“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.” ― Jimmy Dean
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.”
“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.”
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Washington Thurman
“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” – William Shakespeare
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” – Jean Vanier
“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” ― Ken Keyes Jr.
“Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.” – Dan Coppersmith
“You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.”― Suzy Kassem
“You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won’t do a thing unless you believe it yourself.”― Criss Jami
“Don’t let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.” – Nikki Rowe
“Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can’t stand not to love someone else.”― Kiera Cass
“There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.”
“Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself.”― Nikki Rowe
“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” – Kristen Neff
“Respect, Love, and Value yourself. Always remember to be good to yourself by taking care of yourself. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay. Don’t feel guilty for loving yourself, first! You’re just as important as anybody else.” – Stephanie Lahart
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”― Malcolm Forbes Jr.
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” – Bob Moawad
“Don’t ever allow yourself to forget how incredibly special you are, even for a single second. Without you, the world would not be as magnificent. Let yourself remember to love again, starting with you loving you.” ― Miya Yamanouchi
“There are women who struggle to GAIN weight who are beautiful. There are women who struggle to LOSE weight who are beautiful. You know who is the most beautiful? Those who learn to love themselves the way they are. You don’t need to change for ANYONE.” ― Teresa Mummert
“Self love is asking yourself what you need – everyday – and then making sure you receive it.”
“You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be the one. If you can wrap yourself around the idea that you are something incredible, then you will stop excusing behavior that rapes your very soul. You were never meant to teach someone to love you. You were meant to be loved.” – Shannon L. Alder
“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews
“You are a true success if you can trust yourself, love yourself, and be yourself.”
“I have discovered, just as my teachers always told me, that we already have what we need. The wisdom, the strength, the confidence, the awakened heart and mind are always accessible, here, now, always.” ― Pema Chödrön
“I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp
“It isn’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” – W.C. Fields
“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
Short Love Yourself Quotes
“You are enough just as you are.” ― Meghan Markle
“Have mercy for yourself.” ― Jack Kornfield
“Love is unconditional.” ― Shane Parrish
“Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.” ― Brené Brown
“Love is without motive, without a purpose.” ― Love is its own reward. Osho
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” ― Maya Angelou
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” ― Brené Brown
“A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.” ― Osho
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” ― Mark Twain
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” ― Katrina Mayer
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” ― Robert Morley
“Be kind to yourself. If you won’t, who will?” ― Justin Kan
“As you love yourself, life loves you back.”― Kamal Ravikant
“You can listen to the crowd or you can just be yourself.” ― Thibaut
“Love is the great educator.” ― Sigmund Freud
“Know your chief fault.” ― Baltasar Gracián
“Surround yourself with electric people.” ― George Raveling
“Love yourself and dream bigger.” ― Teresa Collins
